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 … the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …

) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for … conditions, migration perceptions, or adaptation capabilities. We find that droughts are associated with a higher probability of … migration intentions in Senegal, Niger and Ivory Coast. The effect on international migration intentions are only significant in …

focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding … is that migration, and particularly skilled immigration, is a strong and robust driver of productive knowledge diffusion …

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

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

. We find that the elasticity of exports to return migration is between 0.1 to 0.24 in industries where migrants were …