Do remittances reshape household expenditures? Evidence from Nepal
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Remittances; Household expenditures; Instrumental variable; Nepal; South Asia;All these keywords.
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- I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General - - - General
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
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