Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …

This paper examines the impact of migration on educational attainments in rural Mexico. Using historical migration … rates by state to instrument for current migration, we find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on … completing high-school. The negative effect of migration on schooling is somewhat mitigated for younger girls with low educated …

to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …

This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. We … first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education … levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from …

This paper assesses the fiscal consequences of migration to the UK from the Central and Eastern European countries that …