cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status - shorter individuals show a stronger …

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, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in …

information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …

International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …

Based on a welfare-maximization model of skilled migration where education generates a positive externality, this paper …, welfare, optimal education subsidy (s), and a combination of s and BT, when residents' (emigrants') weight in the government …'s objective function is 1 (1 - β), with β ε [0,1]. I find that: i) education, welfare and s are higher (lower) under an open than …