The decision to migrate has received substantial attention from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Underlying most analyses is the desire to understand why individuals relocate within their own country, or more drastically, migrate to another country. While there are numerous reasons...

Studies in the microeconometric literature increasingly utilize distance to or time to reach markets or social services as determinants of economic issues. These studies typically use self-reported measures from survey data, often characterized by non-classical measurement error. This paper is...

This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage-dependent and labour supply parameters. Geographic...