TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Akay, Alpaslan
AU  - Giulietti, Corrado
AU  - Robalino, Juan David
AU  - Zimmermann, Klaus F.
        TI  - Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
        PY  - 2012/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6631
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6631
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - subjective well-being
KW  - migrants
KW  - remittances
        ER  -