Table 1.

Summary statistics

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
	Households Receiving Remittances			All households
Variables	N	mean	s.d.	N	mean	s.d.
log per capita household expenditure	760	8.314	0.975	1296	8.123	0.968
log per capita food expenditure (monthly)	760	6.924	0.869	1296	6.806	0.844
log per capita non-food expenditure (monthly)	760	7.874	1.168	1296	7.649	1.173
log per capita new saving deposit	760	0.842	1.915	1296	0.809	1.856
log per capita loan repayment	760	1.227	2.656	1296	1.315	2.719
log agricultural income	760	3.624	3.532	1296	3.811	3.464
log non-agricultural income	760	4.046	3.666	1296	4.212	3.556
log per capita income from domestic sources	760	6.192	2.855	1296	6.463	2.451
log per capita remittance income	760	6.067	2.534	1296	3.558	3.563
Destination per capita GDP (ECON)*	760	9.036	0.753	1296	8.605	0.772
Head’s age	760	53.79	14.27	1296	51.73	13.85
Head’s sex (=0 if female, = 1 if male)	760	0.668	0.471	1296	0.731	0.444
HH size including overseas members	760	5.268	2.283	1296	4.945	2.143
Head’s educational attainment
Elementary	760	0.368	0.483	1296	0.407	0.492
General High School	760	0.342	0.475	1296	0.349	0.477
Technical Vocational	760	0.0474	0.213	1296	0.0409	0.198
Post Secondary	760	0.0105	0.102	1296	0.00926	0.0958
College or more	760	0.226	0.419	1296	0.185	0.389
Head’s occupation
Manager	760	0.0316	0.175	1296	0.0293	0.169
Professional	760	0.0263	0.160	1296	0.0262	0.160
Clerical	760	0.0158	0.125	1296	0.0147	0.120
Service	760	0.0816	0.274	1296	0.0903	0.287
Agriculture	760	0.262	0.440	1296	0.271	0.445
Production	760	0.0184	0.135	1296	0.0231	0.150
Municipality (=0 if Bansalan, = 1 if Dingras)	760	0.521	0.500	1296	0.486	0.500