households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth … role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar …, Lewbel and Pendakur (2013), extended to allow single-parent and other complex households, scale economies in assignable goods …