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A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Development Economics, May 2013
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Article details
Title
A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?
Published in
Journal of Development Economics, May 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.01.001
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
United Kingdom 3 2%
France 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Unknown 157 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 30%
Researcher 23 14%
Student > Bachelor 17 10%
Student > Master 14 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 7%
Other 31 19%
Unknown 20 12%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 88 53%
Social Sciences 21 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 4%
Environmental Science 5 3%
Psychology 5 3%
Other 14 8%
Unknown 27 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 December 2025.
All research outputs
#2,777,437
of 28,038,753 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Development Economics
#827
of 2,580 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,608
of 210,955 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Development Economics
#3
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,038,753 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,580 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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