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 …

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 …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

view tends to neglect two important dynamic e ffects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants …' quality, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks …-equivalent migration costs by education level relate to networks. The results imply that the relationship between networks and immigrants …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …

This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the … migration, we then survey the theoretical and empirical brain drain literature in a unified framework. Finally we use a …

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may … offers a different interpretation from the usually assumed migration network effects. With no need to endogenize migration …

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 …

of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive … information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …