relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large …

supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state … effect is contingent on political factors related to Mexico's democratic transition. Killings increased substantially more in …

Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program …, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but guaranteed income stream increases US migration … collateral to finance the migration. The individuals who start migrating because of this income shock belong to households with …

This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by … those who emigrated to countries with better governance. -- International migration ; governance ; political accountability … ; institutions ; effects of emigration in origin countries ; household survey ; Cape Verde ; Sub-Saharan Africa …

institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an instrumental-variables strategy exploiting regional democratization waves … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …