@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6631,
            	author={Akay, Alpaslan and Giulietti, Corrado and Robalino, Juan David and Zimmermann, Klaus F.},
            	title={Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China},
            	year={2012},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={6631},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6631},
	abstract={The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective well- being is regressed on the level of remittances, and we find a sizeable positive correlation. The effect of remittances on well-being varies 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 and find evidence that both altruistic (such as pure altruism and reciprocity) and contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China.},
	keywords={subjective well-being;migrants;remittances},
            }