Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier B.; Giulietti, Corrado; … - 2015
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 …