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Surveying migrant households : a comparison of census-based, snowball, and intercept point surveys/ David J. McKenzie; Johan Mistiaen

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed to compare the performance of three alternative survey methods in collecting data from...

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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 …

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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...

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