Household inequality and remittances in rural Thailand: a life-cycle perspective

Inequality and the life cycle

I structurally estimate an incomplete markets life-cycle model with endogenous labor supply using data on the joint distribution of wages, hours, and consumption. The model is successful at matching the evolution of both the first and second moments of the data over the life cycle. The key challenge for the model is to generate declining inequality in annual hours worked over the first half of ...

Poverty and Inequality: a Life Chances Perspective

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation of Rural Household Biogas Systems in China: A Life Cycle Assessment

Rural household biogas (RHB) systems are at a crossroads in China, yet there has been a lack of holistic evaluation of their energy and climate (greenhouse gas mitigation) efficiency under typical operating conditions. We combined data from monitoring projects and questionnaire surveys across hundreds of households from two typical Chinese villages within a consequential life cycle assessment (...

A Life Cycle Perspective on Changes in Earnings Inequality among Married Men and Women

A LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVE ON CHANGES IN EARNINGS INEQUALITY AMONG MARRIED MEN AND WOMEN

The impact of migration and remittances on wealth accumulation and distribution in rural Thailand.

This article studies the impact of internal migration and remittance flows on wealth accumulation and distribution in 51 rural villages in Nang Rong, Thailand. Using data from 5,449 households, the study constructs indices of household productive and consumer assets with principal component analysis. The changes in these indices from 1994 to 2000 are modeled as a function of households' prior m...