The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 … percent of the improvement in schooling for this age group between the years 1988 and 2000 …

This paper studies the decision made by a family to invest in student migration. We propose an empirical structural … this procedure. We study the characteristics of potential candidates to migration that increase or decrease their … complete a Master's degree doubles the odds of migration, there is little evidence of gender preference, students migrants are …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

margin. The skill distribution is continuous, and, for each skill level, the distribution of migration cost is also … migration is decreasing in the skill level. When the semi-elasticity of migration is increasing in the skill level, either … negative. Numerical simulations are calibrated using plausible values of the semi-elasticity of migration for top income …

indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …