This study analyzes the differential consumption patterns of foreign and domestic remittances to migrant households in … Pakistan using Working-Leser framework and propensity score matching. Findings point to differing consumption behaviour across …

We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the … world. The current benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every …

Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the … world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its … emergence of a global "middle class". We show how regional distributions of income and consumption have evolved very differently …

countries with high endowments of unskilled labor, their wages should rise relative to those of skilled labor. This paper …