Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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991443 | World Development | 2015 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
SummaryWe compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery in order to examine the impact of migration on objective and subjective well-being. The results show that international migration brings large improvements in objective well-being. Impacts on subjective well-being are complex, with mental health improving but happiness declining, self-rated welfare rising if viewed retrospectively but static if viewed experimentally, self-rated social respect rising retrospectively but falling experimentally and subjective income adequacy rising. We further show that these changes would not be predicted from cross-sectional regressions on the correlates of subjective well-being in either Tonga or New Zealand.
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Authors
Steven Stillman, John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua,