This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis … that local risk-sharing networks restrict mobility, is that among households with the same (permanent) income, those in …

using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that … geographical mobility, lower. Families are larger (higher fertility and higher family size) with strong family ties, which is …

frictions: imperfect mobility across industries, and downward nominal wage rigidity. Combining the empirical and model results …

This short note constructs Mobility Zones to facilitate the discussion on the geographic extent of individual mobility … restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19. Mobility Zones are disjoint sets of counties where a given level of individual … mobility directly or indirectly connects all counties within each set. I compute Mobility Zones for the United States and each …

This study quantifies the effect of state reopening policies on daily mobility, travel, and mixing behavior during the … different states. We quantify the increase in mobility patterns during the reopening phase by a broad range of cell …-device-based metrics. Soon (four days) after reopening, we observe a 6% to 8% mobility increase. In addition, we find that temperature and …

consequences of international mobility of managerial know-how. We use the model and aggregate data to infer the relative scarcity …