This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …

future migration can positively impact educational attainment. According to our results, a 10pp increase in the probability … of own future migration may improve the average probability of completing intermediate secondary schooling by 8pp for … substantial human capital gains from lowering migration barriers. …

origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …

educational upgrading of emigrants after migration. We do so by combining our survey data on current, return and non-migrants with … substantial human capital gains from allowing free migration and encouraging return migration. …

view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants’ education level, and source countries’ income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries’ level and rate of migration …

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …