Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals’ domestic tourism participation … and trip expenditure decisions together. We control for a large set of explanatory variables broadly classified as … important determinants of trip expenditure in addition to economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The unconditional …

Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation … and trip expenditure decisions together. We control for a large set of explanatory variables broadly classified as … important determinants of trip expenditure in addition to economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The unconditional …

This paper investigates the effect of natural disasters on tourism expenditure. We exploit the natural experiment of … effect of the volcanic eruption on both aggregate expenditure and expenditure by category. We find that the volcanic eruption … price mechanism and the tourism-profile mechanism. Our results provide evidence of prosocial consumption among tourists …

This study examines the factors affecting domestic households' tourism spending in India. The results from using the … unconditional quantile regression method show that regular salary earners in India spend less on tourism. The likelihood of tourism … spending increases with higher education. Female-headed households spend less on tourism than male-headed households …

, expenditure elasticities. Furthermore, a bootstrap approach to obtain confidence intervals when data are clustered - as is the …

Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …

growth in rural India. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna by providing certainty equivalent growth of consumption in 14 … major states of India over the period 1958-1997, corresponding to NSS Rounds 13th to 53rd. The extant debates around poverty … that certainty equivalent consumption growth in rural India has been much lower than average real per capita consumption …

suggests that Microfinance has a significant positive effect on school and food expenditure but no apparent effect on …