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The long-term impact of international migration on economic decision-making : evidence from a migration lottery and lab-in-the-field experiments
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2016
transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration … and pro-market beliefs. We also link migrants and potential migrants to a partner household consisting of family members … large change in economic institutions, and a reduction in interactions with partner household members. Despite these changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518134
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The long-term impacts of international migration : evidence from a lottery
Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2015
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387152
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The "soda tax" is unlikely to make Mexicans lighter : new evidence on biases in elasticities of demand for soda
Andalón, Mabel; Gibson, John K. - 2017
the quality margin and correlated measurement errors. We use Mexican household budget survey data and city-level soda …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647675