- Title
- Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
- Author(s)
- Alpaslan Akay Alpaslan Akay (Institute for the Study of Labor)
- Corrado Giulietti Corrado Giulietti (Institute for the Study of Labor)
- Juan D. Robalino Juan Robalino (Cornell University)
- Klaus F. Zimmermann Klaus Zimmermann (Institute for the Study of Labor)
- Abstract
- The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the relationship between sending remittances and the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China, we estimate models in which a SWB measure is regressed on the level of remittances, finding a sizeable positive correlation. The estimates vary with the socio-economic characteristics of migrants, migration experience and the diversity of family arrangements. As a complementary objective, we use SWB measures to elicit the motivations behind remittances, finding evidence that both altruistic and contractual motivations are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China.
- Creation Date
- 2013-02
- Section URL ID
- IRS
- Paper Number
- 572
- URL
- https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01cn69m419r/4/Remittances%20&%20Wellbeing%20Zimmermann.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- J61, D64, I3
- Keyword(s)
- Migrants, subjective well-being, remittances, China
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 1