Remittances and relative concerns in rural China
Remittances and relative concerns in rural China
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DOI：
10.1016/j.chieco.2015.12.006
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发表时间：
2016-02-01
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Zimmermann, Klaus F.
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作者：
Akay, Alpaslan;Bargain, Olivier B.;Zimmermann, Klaus F.
本文调查了汇款对中国农村家庭相关问题的影响。使用中国农村人口向城市人口迁移（RUMiC）数据集，我们估计了一系列主观幸福感函数，以同时探讨收入和汇款方面的相关问题。我们的研究结果表明，尽管农村家庭由于收入比较而遭受了巨大的福利损失，但他们通过将自己的汇款与参考群体收到的汇款进行比较而获得了福祉。换句话说，我们发现了收入方面存在“地位效应”的证据，以及汇款方面存在类似程度的“信号效应”的证据。这一发现对于各种规范、替代参照组定义、对汇款内生性的控制和选择性移民以及移民对家庭收入的净贡献的使用都是稳健的。 (C) 2015 年，爱思唯尔公司出版。
The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of subjective well-being functions to simultaneously explore relative concerns with respect to income and remittances. Our results show that although rural households experience substantial welfare loss due to income comparisons, they gain well-being by comparing their remittances with those received by their reference group. In other words, we find evidence of a "status effect" with respect to income and of a "signal effect" of similar magnitude with respect to remittances. This finding is robust to various specifications, alternative reference group definitions, controls for the endogeneity of remittances and selective migration, as well as the use of migrants' net contribution to household income. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Inc.