Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Andersson, L.
Author-Email: lisa.andersson@economics.gu.se
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Migration, remittances and household welfare in Ethiopia
Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and  migration on
	 household welfare in Ethiopia. We employ both subjective a  households subjective
	 economic well-being and objective measures  asset holdings and asset accumulation to
	 define household welfare. A  matching approach is applied to address self-selection,
	 and by  exploiting information before and after the households began receiving 
	 remittances, the study sheds light on the changes in welfare associated  with
	 international migration and remittances. The results reveal that  remittances have a
	 significant impact on a welfare variable that has  previously not received much
	 attention in the migration literature,  namely household subjective economic
	 well-being. In addition, we find  that remittances have positive effects on consumer
	 asset accumulation,  especially in rural areas, but no effect on productive assets.
Classification-JEL: F22, F24, O15
Keywords: migration, remittances, household welfare, economic development, human development,
	 income distribution, asset acculumation, Ethiopia
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20140131
Number: 2014-004
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2014/wp2014-004.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 333 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014004