of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … the wage effect of emigration, instead …

analysis on individuals born in states with either high-exposure or low-exposure to emigration, as measured by historical data … skill, emigration rates appear to be highest among individuals with earnings in the top half of the wage distribution …

-migration. This paper examines the impact of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 on agricultural development. Flooded counties …

population during colonization and examine its association with the level of economic development today. We find: (1) a strong … and uniformly positive relationship between colonial European settlement and development, (2) a stronger relationship … between colonial European settlement and economic development today than between development today and the proportion of the …

evidence that emigration represents an important margin of adaptation to climatic change. In this paper we analyse whether … spreading them to countries of destination. We find that in countries where emigration propensity, as measured by past diaspora …, was higher, increases in temperature had a smaller effects on conflict probability, consistent with emigration functioning …