carries with it the risk of losing a future election, the paper exploits election-timing and village heterogeneity in lineage …

carries with it the risk of losing a future election, the paper exploits election-timing and village heterogeneity in lineage …

identified along two additional lines: remittances and migration history. Results show that individual occupational choice in …

This paper investigates how rural-urban income differentials interact with the risk coping motive to shape households …' migration behavior. Using a model of migration behavior under agricultural income risk, our theoretical results suggest that … agricultural income risk the household is facing. Empirical findings on Chinese farm households indicate that the incidence of …

remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to … account for the selection of households into receiving remittances, and estimate average treatment effects on the treated. We … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …

This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross …-sectional survey. Allowing for endogeneity and left-censoring of remittances, we find that the marginal propensity to save out of … remittances is well below half of that out of other sources of incomes. Moreover, we find no evidence of any direct effect of …

remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to … account for the selection of households into receiving remittances, and estimate average treatment effects on the treated. We … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …

This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross …-sectional survey. Allowing for endogeneity and left-censoring of remittances, we find that the marginal propensity to save out of … remittances is well below half of that out of other sources of incomes. Moreover, we find no evidence of any direct effect of …