| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations | Before | After Intervention 1: 497 households. Intervention 2: 4,994 households. |
| Field Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms | Before | After Intervention 1: 249 control households, 248 treatment households. Intervention 2: 1,588 placebo households, 841 pure control households, 2,565 treatment households. |
| Field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Field Paper Abstract | Before | After In many developing economies, urban workers earn substantially more than rural workers with the same level of education. Why don’t more rural workers migrate to cities? I use two field experiments in Kenya to show that low migration is partly due to underestimation of urban incomes, which is sustained by income hiding by migrants. Parents at the origin underestimate their migrant children’s incomes by nearly half, and underestimation is greater when a migrant’s remittance obligations are high. Providing information about urban earnings increases migration to the capital city by about 40 percent over two years. |
| Field Paper Citation | Before | After Baseler, Travis. 2023. "Hidden Income and the Perceived Returns to Migration." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 15 (4): 321-52. |
| Field Paper URL | Before | After https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/app.20210571 |