Mental Accounting and Remittances: A Study of Malawian Households
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Keywords
Remittances; Household Behaviour; Consumer Economics; Economic Development; Africa; Malawi;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2007-06-23 (Africa)
- NEP-CBE-2007-06-23 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2007-06-23 (Development)
- NEP-MFD-2007-06-23 (Microfinance)
- NEP-MIG-2007-06-23 (Economics of Human Migration)
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