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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link
Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022
Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …
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Climate change, cold waves, heat waves, and mortality : evidence from a lower middle-income country
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Nguyen, Manh-Hung; Toan Truong Nguyen - 2022
We estimate the impact of temperature extremes on mortality in Vietnam, using daily data on temperatures and monthly data on mortality during the 2000-2018 period. We find that both cold and heat waves cause higher mortality, particularly among older people. This effect on mortality tends to be...
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Social barriers to female migration : theory and evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
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Arrival of young talents : the send-down movement and rural education in China
Chen, Yi; Fan, Ziying; Gu, Xiaomin; Zhou, Li-An - 2018 - This draft: October 2018
' educational achievement. Our estimate shows that the unintended gain of rural education almost compensated the loss in urban China … education. …
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Exploring the spillover effects of internally displaced settlements on the wellbeing of children of the locales
Uchenna, Efobi; Joseph, Ajefu - 2024
This research examines the effect of internally displaced persons (IDPs) resettlement on the anthropometric outcomes of the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance heterogeneities between the household and the closest...
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Welfare magnets and internal migration in China
Jin, Zhangfeng - 2020
This study examines the causal effects ofwelfare benefits on internal migration decisions. Using a quasi-experimentalmigration reform across 283 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2015, combined with a difference-in-differences setup, Ishowthat improvedwelfarebenefitssubstantially increasemigration....
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It's the way people move! : labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia
Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020
This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states and regions of Russia. In contrast to previous studies, we use variations in the population of a region as a proxy of its net migration rate and apply spatial econometric...
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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...
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Natural hazards and internal migration : the role of transient versus permanent shocks
Pavel, Tanvir; Hasan, Syed; Halim, Nafisa; Mozumde, Pallab - 2018
We analyse internal migration triggered by natural disasters in Bangladesh. We conducted a survey in nine coastal districts and two major cities in Bangladesh to investigate whether floods and cyclones, which can be considered as transient shocks, affect interregional migration differently...
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Where are migrants from? : inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China
Su, Yaqin; Tesfazion, Petros; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs. inter-provincial migrants, and examining the differences in their personal attributes. We find that migrants who have...
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