TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gibson, John
AU  - McKenzie, David
AU  - Rohorua, Halahingano
AU  - Stillman, Steven
        TI  - The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery
        PY  - 2015/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9492
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9492
        AB  - We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be similar in magnitude to the gain in the first year, despite migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results in large sustained benefits to their immediate family, who have substantially higher consumption, durable asset ownership, savings, and dietary diversity. In contrast we find no measureable impact on extended family.
        KW  - household well-being
KW  - assimilation
KW  - natural experiment
KW  - international migration
        ER  -