Remittances and Happiness of Migrants and Their Home Households: Evidence Using Matched Samples
利用孟加拉国移民家庭（居住在英国和马来西亚）与其原籍家庭的匹配数据，研究发现汇款能显著提升移民的幸福感，而原籍家庭的生活满意度不仅取决于汇款，还受海外移民人数和目的地国影响。
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 remittances play a significant role in stimulating migrants’ happiness. We also find that the households of origin’s life satisfaction not only depends on receiving remittances from the emigrants, but also other factors such as number of migrants from the household living abroad and the migrants’ country of destination.