Does Internal Migration Improve Overall Well-Being in Ethiopia?

Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, where relative income has shown a significant and negative impact on subjective well-being, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subject...

Internal Migration, Remittance, and Contraceptive Use in India Session 265: Internal Migration and Wellbeing IUSSP 2013 Busan, Korea

Internal migration and household living conditions in Ethiopia

Using the 1998 Migration, Gender and Health Survey in Five Regions of Ethiopia, and multivariate regression techniques, this paper examines the relationship between internal migration and household living conditions. The analysis finds significant living condition advantage of permanent and temporary migrants over non-migrants, primarily linked to migration selectivity by education and non-agri...

Causes and Effects of Rangeland Degradation in the Lowland Districts of the Bale Eco-Region, Ethiopia

This study was carried out in Bale Eco-Region (BER) which is located in Southeastern Ethiopia with the objective of addressing the cause and effect of ecological damage, particularly rangeland degradation. Both purposive and stratified random sampling approaches were used to select HouseHolds (HH). Individual interview, key informants an...

Not a Zero-Sum Game: China’s Internal Migration and the Wellbeing of Rural-origin Children

Two-fifths of the 279 million children in China are directly affected by the on-going massive internal migration. Using data from a nationally representative survey covering junior high school students in both rural and urban areas, we examine the causal impacts of different migration processes (parental migration, child migration, and hukou conversion) on rural children’s wellbeing measured by...