Accounting for selectivity and duration-dependent heterogeneity when estimating the impact of emigration on incomes and poverty in sending areas

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 247-280

  Gibson, John ^a   Mckenzie, David ^b   Stillman, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; POVERTY; SMALL ISLAND STATE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EID: 84872358092     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668276     Document Type: Article

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