Chiodi, Vera; Jaimovich, Esteban; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel - HAL - 2009
This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural … households in Mexico over the period 1997- 2006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a …. Exploiting within family variation and an instrumental variable strategy, we show that migration indeed accelerates productive …