Steven Stillman|John Gibson|David McKenzie|Halahingano Rohorua
Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
University of Otago|University of Waikato|World Bank|University of Waikato
compare successful unsuccessful applicants migration lottery order examine impact migration objective subjective wellbeing results show international migration brings large improvements objective wellbeing impacts subjective wellbeing complex mental health improving happiness declining selfrated welfare rising viewed retrospectively static viewed experimentally selfrated social respect rising retrospectively falling experimentally subjective income adequacy rising show changes would predicted crosssectional regressions correlates subjective wellbeing either tonga new zealand