Abdelmoneim, Yousra and Litchfield, Julie (2016) Does migration improve living standards of migrant-sending households? Evidence from rural Ethiopia. Working Paper. Migrating out of Poverty, Brighton.
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Abstract
This paper aims to evaluate the impact of migration on household welfare, in particular the consumption expenditure in Ethiopia, using cross-sectional data collected from 1,200 rural households from four different regions in 2014. We estimate a counterfactual distribution of household consumption per capita, using a Heckman selection model to control and test for selection bias, to analyse to what extent households have gained from having a migrant. Our results suggest that on average, migration has a positive impact on the rural living standards but that gains are not distributed evenly across the consumption distribution. We find that poorer households in fact experience a decline in living standards by having a migrant.
Item Type: | Reports and working papers (Working Paper) |
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Additional Information: | Working Paper 41 |
Keywords: | Migration, Remittances, Counterfactual analysis, Heckman model, Consumption, Welfare |
Schools and Departments: | University of Sussex Business School > Economics |
Research Centres and Groups: | Sussex Centre for Migration Research |
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Depositing User: | Stacey Goldup |
Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2016 11:35 |
Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2016 12:36 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/64688 |
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