%0 Report
        %A Akay, Alpaslan
%A Giulietti, Corrado
%A Robalino, Juan David
%A Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        %T Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6631
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6631
        %X 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.
        %K subjective well-being
%K migrants
%K remittances