Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being

被引：74

作者：

Stillman, Steven ^{[1
]}

Gibson, John ^{[2
]}

McKenzie, David ^{[3
]}

Rohorua, Halahingano ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

[2] Univ Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

[3] World Bank, Washington, DC 20433 USA

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2015年 / 65卷

关键词：

immigration; lottery; natural experiment; subjective well-being; Tonga; Pacific Islands; URBAN MIGRANTS; INCOME; HAPPINESS; HEALTH; ADAPTATION; IMMIGRANTS; SELECTION; WELFARE; LIFE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.07.003

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

We 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. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：79 / 93

页数：15

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