The Returns to Temporary Migration: Experimental Evidence from the H-2A Program

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. This project received IRB approval from Stanford University, protocol IRB-59508. The project was preregistered on the AEA RCT registry, AEARCTR-0011705. We thank our partners, REDDES (especially Vicente Vargas, Pauline Mollard, María Sanchez, and Karen Bahena) and wafla (especially Enrique Gastelum, Scott Diley, and Luís Guitron), for facilitating the project. We thank, without implicating, Ran Abramitzky, Michael Clemens, Philip Martin, David McKenzie, Mushfiq Mobarak, Jeremy Weinstein, and Dean Yang, as well as audience comments at numerous conferences and seminars for comments. Sirig Gurung, Isabel Meijia Fontanot, Daniel Gomar, Eva Lestant, Alexia Olaizola, Fátima Pacheco Hurtado, Ben Shenouda, and Paula Irene Londoño Suarez provided excellent project and research assistance. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant 2214129, as well as funding from the Stanford King Center on International Development and Stanford Impact Labs. All errors remain our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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