During the twentieth century, internal migration and urbanization shaped Brazil’s economic and social landscape. Cities … proved particularly salient. This study asks, has domestic migration to cities been part of a healthy process of economic …

context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process. Based on a unique data set … collected at both ends of the migration link in Bolivia, we are able to show that migrant children significantly influence the … important role and the identity of the person responsible for the migration decision emerges as an important determinant of …

of migration and remittances (that is, a .private safety net. built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

migration for Brazil. We estimate the worker?s multichoice migration problem and document that previously unobserved employer … covariates are significant predictors associated with migration flows. Our results provide support for the idea that … globalization acts on internal migration through the growth of employment opportunities at locations with a high concentration of …

This paper provides unique evidence of the positive consequences of seasonal migration for investments in early … childhood development. We analyse migration in a poor shock-prone border region in rural Nicaragua where it offers one of the …?s migration has a positive effect on early cognitive development. We attribute these findings to changes in income and to the …