Study Ivlevs et al. (2019): study ZZ World samples 2009
- Public
- Intimates left behind after migration, Multiple nations, 2009 - 2011
- Survey name
- INT-GallupWorldPoll2009-2011
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 142468
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Phone interviews were used where telephone coverage is more than 80%.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Remittances
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- specification data for age, gender, and region retrieved from IZA Working Paper. No. 11437, March 2018
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- 1 = receive money or goods from an individual abroad in the past 12 months
0 = otherwise.
1= Houses with relatives abroad
0= Otherwise
Countries according to World Bank income group, 2010.
Observed Relation with Happiness
high income countries - 0.07 ns
upper middle income countries + 0.07 ns
lower-middle income countries + 0.18 .01
low income coutries + 0.11 ns
quintile 1 poorest within country + .22 .01
quintile 2 + .10 ns
quintile 3 + .22 .01
quintile 4 + .11 .01
quintile 5 richest within country - .07 ns
quartile 1 most equal income(gini)+ .04 ns
quartile 2 + .04 .05
quartile 3 + .19 .01
quartile 4 most unequal income + .16 .01
quartile 1 highest migration rate + .21 .01
quartile 2 + .13 .01
quartile 3 - .11 .05
quartile 4 lowest migration rate + .08 ns
elementary education + .12 .01
secundary education + .05 .05
tertiary education + .10 .01
East Asia and Pacific + .21 .01
Western Europe - .09 ns
Transition + .05 ns
Latin America and Caribbean + .18 .01
Middle East and North Africa + .02 ns
North America - .23 .01
South Asia + .28 .01
Sub-Saharan Africa + .16 .01
Age 15-35 + .11 .01
Age 36-60 + .08 .05
Age over 60 + .16 .01
Female + .11 .01
Male + .11 .01
Beta's adjusted for:
- relative abroad
- age
- sex
- marital status
- household size
- income
- education
- employment status
- subjective health
- importance religion
- city size
- country and survey dummies