Paired Migrant-Household Dyad Surveying
RCTClinical Trial
Evaluating cross-border financial flows solely from the perspective of either the overseas worker or the home country beneficiary yields an incomplete picture of financial behavior and intra-household decision-making. Linking primary data collection across both sides of the migration corridor is required to measure simultaneous transfer and expenditure choices.
Picture this
Think of tracking a package delivery by giving both the sender and the receiver matching logbooks. By asking the sender what they shipped and asking the receiver what arrived and how it was spent, researchers can compare both sides of the transaction without relying on one person's memory.
What the evidence says
Successfully completed endline interviews with 1,987 migrants and 2,075 target household financial managers, establishing 1,377 fully paired dyads to analyze expenditure shifts against recorded remittances.
- Who was studied
- 4,458 migrant respondents in the UAE and 2,075 target household respondents in the Philippines, yielding 1,377 verified paired migrant-household dyads.
- How
- Dual-side longitudinal surveying pairing 30-week mobile app tracking of migrants with endline phone surveys of primary household financial managers.
What to do
Establish linked survey protocols for both financial senders and primary household spending managers to measure bilateral transaction dynamics.
From the source
"We successfully interviewed 1,987 migrant respondents and 2,075 household respondents at endline, among whom 1,377 migrant and household respondents are paired."
A Field Experiment among Filipino Migrant Workers in the UAE