Chattopadhyay, Somnath; Majumder, Amita; Jaman, Hasanur - In: Empirical Economics 46 (2014) 1, pp. 65-99
This paper examines the impact of various socio-economic factors on consumption in rural West Bengal, an eastern state of India, using a regression-based technique reformulated in a spatial framework. The difference of incidences of poverty (head count ratios) in two parts (North and South) of...