The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery

John Gibson, Steven Stillman, David McKenzie and Halahingano Rohorua

No 10935, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: 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 similar in magnitude to the gain in the first year, despite migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results in large sustained benefits to their immediate family, who have substantially higher consumption, durable asset ownership, savings, and dietary diversity. In contrast we find no measureable impact on extended family.

Keywords: Assimilation; Household well-being; International migration; Natural experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11
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Journal Article: The Long-term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery (2018)
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