mobility - the human capital model and the migration model - across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non … predictions of the human capital model. The growing dispersion of international students to emerging economies and continuing …

in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and … phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity …, phenotypic, and phonemic traits along the Out of Africa migration routes, setting conditions for the emergence and proliferation …

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 … smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption …

migration, we do not measure any significant changes in native internal mobility. Then, using a panel regression and a shift …

This paper examines the influence of transportation infrastructure on migration decisions in the context of the Great … Migration in the United States. Focusing on the opening of the Panama Canal in 1920, we isolate the effect of improved economic … opportunities from reduced migration costs. Using full-count Census data, we find that Southern African American migrants preferred …

Consider migration to a higher income region as a human capital investment in which parents bear migration costs and … intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be self-selected on fertility. Soviet Jews who migrate to Israel despite high migration …