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Let's be selective about migrant self-selection

Biavaschi, Costanza; Elsner, Benjamin - 2013

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified the causes of self-selection, we turn in this paper to the consequences. Using a combination of non-parametric econometrics and calibrated simulation, we quantify the impact of...

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Consumption and leisure : the welfare impact of migration on family left behind

Murard, Elie - 2016

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in … improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

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Transfers to households with children and child development

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Wiswall, Matthew - 2014

In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost criterion that can be used to compare the cost effectiveness of unrestricted, restricted, and...

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The causal impact of migration on US trade : evidence from a natural experiment

Steingress, Walter - 2015

Immigrants can increase international trade by shifting preferences towards the goods of their country of origin and by reducing bilateral transaction costs. Using geographical variations across US states for the period 1970 to 2005, we quantify the impact of immigrants on intermediate goods...

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Climate variability and international migration : the importance of the agricultural linkage

Cai, Ruohong; Feng, Shuaizhang; Pytlikova, Mariola; … - 2014

While there is considerable interest in understanding the climate-migration relationship, particularly in the context of concerns about global climatic change, little is known about underlying mechanisms. We analyze a unique and extensive set of panel data characterizing annual bilateral...

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Does bilateral trust affect international movement of goods and labor? : conference paper

Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2013

Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...

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Immigrants and religion

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2014

Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...

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Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Foged, Mette - 2016

A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family migration cannot be rejected against the alternative of...

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Networks and migrants' intended destination

Bertoli, Simone; Ruyssen, Ilse - 2016

Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed. We rely on individual-level surveys conducted by Gallup in 147 countries that provide information on migration intentions and on the existence of distance-one connections for...

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International migration : driver of political and social change?

Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2016

This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families....

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