Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal∗

Household Energy Expenditure and Income Groups: Evidence from Great Britain

Household energy use is increasingly important in the context of fuel poverty and the equity debate as well as in relation to energy saving and efficiency policies. We first explore the link between household energy spending and income. We use a panel dataset from a comprehensive survey of UK households from 1991 to 2007 comprising over 77,000 observations to analyse electricity, gas, and overa...

Remittances matter: Longitudinal evidence from Albania

Using the LSMS panel data collected by the World Bank in Albania from 2002 to 2004, this paper focuses on the determinants and financial implication of remittances sent by family members and adult children living abroad. Our econometric analysis draws on random and fixed effects discrete choice models. We find that the proportion of households receiving remittances is large. These transfers are...

The Purpose of Remittances – Evidence from Germany

Searching for Evidence of Boy-Girl Discrimination in Household Expenditure Data: Evidence from Gansu Province, China

Previous economic studies have revealed that parents in developing countries often prefer boys over girls, resulting in differential treatment (e.g. Das Gupta 1987, Garg and Morduch 1997). These differences are manifested in high female mortality during childhood, skewed sex ratios and lower educational attainment of women. However, studies attempting to find evidence of this bias by examining ...

Estimating health expenditure shares from household surveys.

OBJECTIVE To quantify the effects of household expenditure survey characteristics on the estimated share of a household's expenditure devoted to health. METHODS A search was conducted for all country surveys reporting data on health expenditure and total household expenditure. Data on total expenditure and health expenditure were extracted from the surveys to generate the health expenditure s...