The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy
对新西兰季节性工人项目RSE的多年评估发现，参与项目显著提高了汤加和瓦努阿图家庭的收入、消费、储蓄和主观生活水平，影响远超其他常见发展干预措施。
Abstract Seasonal migration programs are widely used around the world, yet there is little evidence as to their development impacts. A multiyear prospective evaluation of New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) seasonal worker program allows us to measure the impact of participating in this program on households in Tonga and Vanuatu. Using a propensity-score prescreened difference-in-differences analysis based on surveys fielded before, during, and after participation, we find that the RSE has indeed had positive development impacts that dwarf those of other popular development interventions. It has increased income, consumption, and savings of households; durable goods ownership; and subjective standard of living. The results also suggest that child schooling improved in Tonga.