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 …

This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. We … Mexico, we then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low migrant networks … first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education …

This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. We … Mexico, we then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low migrant networks … first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education …

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 …

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 …

International migration is one of the most important choices that individuals and households in poor countries can make … impacts of migration, since those who choose to move typically differ in a host of observable and unobservable ways from those … different datagathering strategies needed for conducing policy experiments. Experimental migration research as a field is still …

differences in observable characteristics. We analyse employment assimilation for all groups over the migration cycle. Our main … part of this differential can be explained by observable characteristics. Over the migration cycle, the data suggests that …