"The authors investigate the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a … migration may affect health outcomes and find evidence that migration raises health knowledge in addition to the direct effect … on wealth. However they also find that preventative health care, such as breastfeeding and vaccinations, is less likely …

dynamics and testing for the presence of poverty traps. The paper explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity in income … does not. These methods are used to examine the evidence for a poverty trap in labor earnings, income, and expenditure in …"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift …