context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process. Based on a unique data set … collected at both ends of the migration link in Bolivia, we are able to show that migrant children significantly influence the … important role and the identity of the person responsible for the migration decision emerges as an important determinant of …

In this paper we study the impact of tenure security on rural to urban migration of household members over the age of … lower probability of migration in rural Tanzania. This result is consistent with the idea that better property rights over … security is a key policy concern in curbing rural - urban migration at early stages of development. …

Internal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their … country. This study describes Mozambique's most common migration patterns from 1992 until 2017 using data from three … migration and multidimensional poverty by applying inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA). We find that …

. We explore patterns of migration within rural households and the impact that these later migrants have on household … lower migration costs, and few of them remit. We find no effect of sending a new migrant on the asset index. We conclude … that the different nature of migration of new migrants implies neither an economic gain for the household nor a loss. The …

This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam. We propose an … instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic … engage in long-distance migration-if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating grooms. Guided by a model … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be …

migration. The effect of rebelocracy is driven mostly by the provision of public goods by non-state armed actors. While this …

In a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, 'Forced migration and inequality', one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and … revisit the contributions of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies special issue that resulted from that earlier project …