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flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …
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In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th...
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We take cohorts of entering freshmen at the United States Air Force Academy and assign half to peer groups with the goal of maximizing the academic performance of the lowest ability students. Our assignment algorithm uses peer effects estimates from the observational data. We find a negative and...
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