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Pure Entertainment or Social Harmony? Understanding Private Returns to Social Spending on Household Ceremonies in China
Chen, Xi - 2011
Recent social spending inflation in China has led to its growth rate far exceeding that of income and other consumption. In this paper, we estimate private returns to social spending, such as higher social status and larger social network that serve as certain functions. In almost all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443729
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Brain drain, remittances, and fertility
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452552
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Banks, remittances and financial deepening in receiving countries : a model
Alberola Ila, Enrique; Salvado, Rodrigo César - 2006
A remarkable fact of the mushrooming remittances market is the absence of commercial banks as relevant players …. Furthermore, remittances have been identified as a potential catalyst for the financial deepening of receiving countries through …-period financial model of remittances without uncertainty. The formulation acknowledges, on the one hand, the altruism component of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530131
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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From Needs to the Market: Changing Inequality of Household Income in the Czech Transition
Vecernik, Jiri - 2001
Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution and redistribution of household income and its determinants over the period 1988-1996. First, the growing difficulties facing income surveys under the democratic regime are considered. Secondly, the substantive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476863