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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We … randomly assigned migrants from El Salvador and Guatemala 10-week remittance transaction fee discounts, and assess impacts … weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969356
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950838
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Mitigating Long-run Health Effects of Drought: Evidence from South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Drought is Africa's primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951388
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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Horton, John; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264931
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Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
Peri, Giovanni; Mayr, Karin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774710
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications
Peri, Giovanni; Ambrosini, J. William; Mayr, Karin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008927012
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Under-investment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
migrants are sufficiently close to subsistence that failed migration is very costly. We document evidence consistent with this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184255
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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?
Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
from China. We find strong evidence that peer effects exist and operate in a positive and nonlinear manner; reducing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085276
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Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia
Gronau, Reuben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Recent years witnessed a flourishing of literature on the implication of shifts from home- production to market production on the macro economy, and in particular, the real business cycle. This literature employs calibration techniques to emulate the fluctuations in market output, labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828900
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Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign IT Workers
Bound, John; Demirci, Murat; Khanna, Gaurav; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
the U.S. Many workers from abroad, including countries like India and China where wages in IT fields lag those in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969295