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 …

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

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 …

of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians. …