Household inequality and remittances in rural Thailand: a life-cycle perspective
利用泰国家庭长期面板数据，研究发现农村家庭收入不平等随户主年龄增长而下降，主要源于较贫困家庭从外出子女获得更多汇款，且汇款占收入比重随户主年龄增加而上升。
Abstract This article studies the dynamics of income inequality among a panel of rural households in Thailand. In contrast to the many cross-section studies of income inequality, the article exploits a long panel data set to examine lifetime trajectories of household inequality. It finds that income inequality is decreasing over time within cohorts delineated by decennial birth dates of heads of household. This decline in inequality primarily arises from differences in receipt of remittances from adult children of the head of household who live outside the village of origin. On average, poorer households receive remittances from a larger number of children, the annual amount remitted per child is a greater proportion of household income than in richer households, and the importance of remittances in household incomes grows as the head of household ages.