Natural experiment evidence on the effect of migration on blood pressure and hypertension

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Natural experiment evidence on the effect of migration on blood pressure and hypertension

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Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But, the effect of this migration on other dimensions of well-being such as health are less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous because of potential for self-selection bias. In this paper, we use a natural experiment, comparing successful and unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impa...

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Research Paper

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Journal article

Date created

2012

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Gibson, John / Stillman, Steven / McKenzie, David / Rohorua, Halahingano Tu'akolo Siufanga

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6776

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blood pressure / hypertension / lottery / migration / natural experiment

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