Does internal migration improve overall well-being in Ethiopia?

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dc.creatorde Brauw, Alan
dc.creatorMueller, Valerie
dc.creatorWoldehanna, Tassew
dc.date2013
dc.date2024-10-01T13:56:33Z
dc.date2024-10-01T13:56:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:26:51Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper, we use a unique panel dataset of tracked migrants and non-migrants that originate from 18 villages in Ethiopia to examine the welfare impacts of internal migration. Using a number of techniques and various objective and subjective measures, we measure the impacts of migration on the welfare of migrants versus non-migrants. We find large gains to objective welfare measures such as consumption, around 110 percent. Gains are larger among male and urban migrants. Howev-er, we also find that relative to household heads subjective welfare measures are similar for migrants. The large welfare gains to migration suggest that barriers exist, even within countries such as Ethiopia, against the free movement of people to places where they would be objectively better off.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153535
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104646
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.publisherEthiopian Development Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourcede Brauw, Alan; Mueller, Valerie; Woldehanna, Tassew. 2013. Does internal migration improve overall well-being in Ethiopia? ESSP Working Paper 55. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153535
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectliving standards
dc.subjectsurveys
dc.titleDoes internal migration improve overall well-being in Ethiopia?
dc.typeWorking Paper

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