The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

We use a migration lottery program to overcome the double-selectivity problems posed by migration. We compare a wide range of outcomes for the remaining household members of Tongan emigrants with those of members of similar households who were unsuccessful in the lottery, with the policy rules d...

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Main Authors:	Gibson, John, McKenzie, David, Stillman, Steven
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	MIT Press 2015
Subjects:	international migration Household division of labor household welfare
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21437

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spelling	okr-10986-214372021-04-23T14:04:02Z The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program Gibson, John McKenzie, David Stillman, Steven international migration Household division of labor household welfare We use a migration lottery program to overcome the double-selectivity problems posed by migration. We compare a wide range of outcomes for the remaining household members of Tongan emigrants with those of members of similar households who were unsuccessful in the lottery, with the policy rules determining which household members can move. Multiple hypothesis testing procedures are used to examine robustness. The overall impact on households left behind is largely negative in terms of resource availability, and both sources of selectivity matter, leading studies that fail to address them adequately to misrepresent the impact of migration on households. 2015-02-12T20:54:20Z 2015-02-12T20:54:20Z 2011-11 Journal Article Review of Economics and Statistics 0034-6535 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21437 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank MIT Press Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article New Zealand
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description	We use a migration lottery program to overcome the double-selectivity problems posed by migration. We compare a wide range of outcomes for the remaining household members of Tongan emigrants with those of members of similar households who were unsuccessful in the lottery, with the policy rules determining which household members can move. Multiple hypothesis testing procedures are used to examine robustness. The overall impact on households left behind is largely negative in terms of resource availability, and both sources of selectivity matter, leading studies that fail to address them adequately to misrepresent the impact of migration on households.
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author	Gibson, John McKenzie, David Stillman, Steven
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title	The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
title_short	The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
title_full	The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members : Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

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