productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from …

fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances, consistently with insights from a theoretical …

' education. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain Drain ; Immigration Policy …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for …, this is mostly to disseminate cultural values and norms from host to home countries (i.e., cultural remittances). …

deviation of 135. We deal with endogeneity concerns by using historical migration networks to instrument for stocks of migrant …

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …