TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Waidler, Jennifer
A1  - Hagen-Zanker, Jessica
A1  - Gassmann, Franziska
A1  - Siegel, Melissa
T1  - Do remittances and social assistance have different impacts on expenditure patterns of recipient households? The Moldovan Case
JF  - Migration and Development
N2  - Do remittances and social assistance transfers have different impacts on household’s expenditure patterns? While two separate strands of literature have looked at how social assistance or remittances have been spent, few studies have compared them directly. Using data from a household survey conducted in Moldova in 2011, this paper assesses the impact both types of transfers have on household expenditure patterns. Contrary to the common assumption that money is fungible, we find that social assistance and remittances have different impacts on expenditure patterns (having controlled for potential endogeneity). In other words, where the income comes from can determine how it is spent. As such, different sources of income may have different poverty impacts. In our sample, the two types of transfers are received by different, but slightly overlapping population groups. The fact that the two transfers are spent in different ways means that, to some extent, social assistance and remittances are complements rather than substitutes.
KW  - remittances
KW  - social assistance
KW  - expenditure patterns
KW  - Moldova
Y1  - 2017
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-34883
SN  - 2163-2324
SS  - 2163-2324
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2016.1159887
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2016.1159887
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SP  - 355
EP  - 375
PB  - Informa UK
CY  - London
ER  -