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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...
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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions
Kennan, John; Walker, James R. - 2021
The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions (rather than a single once-for-all choice), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240935
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Geographic Mobility in America : Evidence from Cell Phone Data
Chen, M. Keith; Pope, Devin G. - 2021
information, jobs, and greater transmission of disease. In this paper, we document the geographic mobility of individuals in the U ….S., and how this mobility varies across U.S. cities, regions, and income classes. Using geolocation data for ~1.7 million … smartphone users over a 10-month period, we compute different measures of mobility, including the total distance traveled, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310381
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A Model of Multiple Districts and Private Schools : the Role of Mobility, Targeting, and Private School Vouchers
Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2021
This paper presents a multi-district model that can be calibrated to data reflecting housing market conditions, public school finance mechanisms and private school markets. Simulations are undertaken to investigate the impact of private school vouchers. Households that differ in both their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233443
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Mobile Money : The Economics of M-Pesa
Jack, William - 2015
Mobile money is a tool that allows individuals to make financial transactions using cell phone technology. In this paper, we report initial results of two rounds of a large survey of households in Kenya, the country that has seen perhaps the most rapid and widespread growth of a mobile money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038307
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Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects
Barwick, Panle Jia - 2019
Information is a crucial ingredient in economic decision making. Yet measuring the extent of information exchange among individuals and its effect on economic outcomes is a difficult task. We use the universe of de-identified cellphone usage records from more than one million users in a Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869540
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Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship When Migration Matters
Arthi, Vellore - 2017
A large literature following Ruhm (2000) suggests that mortality falls during recessions and rises during booms. The panel-data approach used to generate these results assumes that either there is no substantial migration response to temporary changes in local economic conditions, or that any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954452
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Educational Choice, Rural-Urban Migration and Economic Development
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2017
Observing rapid structural transformation accompanied by a continual process of rural to urban migration in many developing countries, we construct a micro founded dynamic framework to explore how important education-based migration is, as opposed to work-based migration, for economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945602
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866187
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Paving the Way to Development : Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration
Morten, Melanie - 2016
How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and … where mobility is determined not only by idiosyncratic tastes, but also by moving costs that are origin … network caused by the construction of a capital city to identify the bilateral costs of moving between two regions. The mean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994889