This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained …

The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining whilst other households migrate en masse. We address …

. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a … credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …

Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of …

We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration …