This editorial introduction presents the papers published in this special issue of Annals of Economics and Statistics, which is the outcome of the first Migration and Development conference organized by EQUIPPE at the Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales, Université Lille 2.

Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper we used the DOCQUIER and MARFOUK [2006] data set on emigration rates by education...

We consider an ethnically-divided developing country, where education is the only investment outlet and the minority is subject to governmental discrimination. We endogenize ethnic discrimination in a political economy framework, and investigate how it is affected by migration prospects. We show...

In this paper, we consider a situation in which the benefits obtained through membership in a minority have the unfortunate side effect of indirectly imposing costs on those same minority members. The central idea links to the issues of envy and hostility, with the latter treated as the...