This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …

after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later, and three … re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. We document several pieces of …

migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where … look at the geography of migration across US counties in the 48 continental states. We then link this settlement pattern of … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … migration of some categories of people. …

This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities …, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state … disease prevalence. We develop a dynamic framework where both migration and prevention behaviour respond to the prevalence of …

determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …. The results indicate that while there is a strong and positive impact associated with overall migration, the national …

infection and can take migration decisions before their health status is publicly observable. In a 2-period model we study under … which conditions the presence of quarantine measures may lead to inefficient outcomes as individuals' interest in migration …

children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling … education instead. The theory hence predicts that the social status of the family has a significant impact on educational choice …

This paper examines migrants' choice of destination conditional on migration. To this end, we design an empirical … strategy which remedies both migration selection and unobserved heterogeneity problems. The study uses data from two rounds of … Nepal Living Standard Surveys and a Population Census and examine how the choice of a migration destination is influenced by …