We focus on the impact of migrants' remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of … remittances and county fixed-effects. We find that the marginal propensity to consume out of remittances is close to unity, which … remittances as permanent income and are consistent with the prevalence of circular and repeat migration which is largely caused by …

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 …

We focus on the impact of migrants’ remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of … remittances and county fixed-effects. We find that the marginal propensity to consume out of remittances is close to unity, which … remittances as permanent income and are consistent with the prevalence of circular and repeat migration which is largely caused by …

Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China’s industrialization and urbanisation in … motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level …

find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of …

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 …

find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of …

find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of …

The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances … on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC …), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective well- being is regressed on the level of remittances, and we find a …