We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and … transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration … and the efficiency of intra-family decision-making. Migration provides a large and permanent positive shock to income, a …

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 …