Remittances and Happiness of Migrants and Their Home Households: Evidence Using Matched Samples

This paper explores how remittances influence happiness among migrants and their households of origin. It is based on a novel data set of matched samples of Bangladeshi migrant households (living in the UK and Malaysia) and their origin families in Bangladesh. Empirical findings suggest that remitta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joarder, Munim, Harris, Mark N., Dockery, Alfred Michael
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17764