We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant …

simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a substitution effect between voicing and emigration. We subsequently … numbers of press reports, is associated with lower emigration rates. This substitution effect holds for both internal and …

A growing literature within economics has sought to examine the impacts of emigration on sending countries. Some of the … studies have looked within families and have investigated how emigration affects those family members who are left behind. In … a broad range of life-events occurring between the two waves. These include the emigration of a child but also events …

Moldova, one of the countries with the highest emigration rates in the world, and an instrumental variable approach we find … data and matched administrative school-level public expenditures from the World Bank's Open Budget Initiative (BOOST) from …

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …

This paper studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered to be one of the main causes of …