The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural … relative concerns with respect to income and remittances. Our results show that although rural households experience … substantial utility loss due to income comparisons, they gain utility by comparing their remittances with those received by their …

This study focuses on gender-specific determinants of remittances in Germany. The conceptual approach considers gender … of naturalized German citizens, gender differences in the amount of remittances disappear. This can be explained by the …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … be explained by the underlying transnational network contract. Second, remittances sent by foreigners and naturalized … reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … be explained by the underlying transnational network contract. Second, remittances sent by foreigners and naturalized … reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …

The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances …), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective well- being is regressed on the level of remittances, and we find a … sizeable positive correlation. The effect of remittances on well-being varies with the socio- economic characteristics of …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and … scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much … poverty line and an Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis, we study how these differences in the incidence of poverty arise. We …