Schiff, Maurice2012-03-302012-03-302008Review of Economics of the Household15695239https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4923In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, most existing studies have overlooked the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The 'corrected' impact that accounts for changes in household size is presented analytically and is estimated on the basis of data from nationally representative household surveys in Albania and Ghana. The analysis considers three poverty measures and four groups of migrant households: those with internal, international, internal and international, and internal and/or international migrants. The ratio of the corrected to the uncorrected impact on per capita income for Ghana (Albania) averages from 2.7 to 4.5 (2.5-3.8), and the ratio for the poverty impact averages from 2.6 to 4.4 (2.1-6.4). Thus, abstracting from changes in household size may result in a substantial underestimate of the impact of migration on income and poverty.ENConsumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120International Migration F220Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320Demographic Trends and ForecastsGeneral Migration J110MarriageMarital DissolutionFamily StructureDomestic Abuse J120Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120Economic Development: Human ResourcesHuman DevelopmentIncome DistributionMigration O150Journal ArticleWorld Bank