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
- Relatives abroad
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- specification data for age, gender, and region retrieved from IZA Working Paper. No. 11437, March 2018
- Distribution
- 1 = 14 %
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- 1= any members of the household have gone to live in a foreign country permanently or temporarily in the past 5 years and are still living there.
0= Otherwise
Observed Relation with Happiness
high income countries + 0.09 .05
upper middle income countries + 0.12 .01
lower-middle income countries + 0.06 .05
low income coutries + 0.05 ns
quintile 1 poorest within country + .04 ns
quintile 2 + .09 .05
quintile 3 + .05 ns
quintile 4 + .07 .05
quintile 5 richest within country + .11 .01
quartile 1 most equal income(gini)+ .05 ns
quartile 2 + .07 .05
quartile 3 + .04 ns
quartile 4 most unequal income + .12 .01
quartile 1 highest migration rate + .05 ns
quartile 2 + .08 .01
quartile 3 + .12 .01
quartile 4 lowest migration rate + .11 .01
elementary education + .12 .01
secundary education + .05 .05
tertiary education + .10 .01
East Asia and Pacific + .10 .01
Western Europe + .08 ns
Transition + .05 ns
Latin America and Caribbean + .10 .01
Middle East and North Africa + .14 .01
North America - .48 .01
South Asia + .07 ns
Sub-Saharan Africa + .06 ns
Age 15-35 + .08 .01
Age 36-6- + .06 .05
Age over 60 + .16 .01
Female + .11 .01
Male + .06 .05
Beta's adjusted for:
- remittances
- age
- sex
- marital status
- household size
- income
- education
- employment status
- subjective health
- importance religion
- city size
- country and survey dummies