This study sheds light on the effect that international remittances have on expenditure patterns of urban households in … that households which receive remittances from abroad spend, on average and ceteris paribus, a higher share of their … households which do not receive remittances. Moreover, looking at the effect of international remittances on marginal spending …

We raise the issue of how appropriately to attribute economic impact to consumption expenditures. Despite the salience …-Output analysis consumption expenditures are either treated as wholly endogenous or wholly exogenous. For many applications, such as … those focusing on the impacts of tourism, benefits systems or student expenditures, these binomial assumptions are not …