Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with … economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm …

-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of unskilled migration and … documents the insurance role of remittances in consumption smoothing. Over the cycle, immigration increases with the expected … stream of future wage gains, but it is dampened by a sunk emigration cost. Migration barriers slow the adjustment of the …

of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive … information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …

-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 allows us … siblings the migration occurs simultaneously in calendar time but at different developmental stages (ages). We find some …

discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic … inequality. Under the free migration assumption, we find the intuitive result that migration prospects have a protective effect … there is no migration at equilibrium, unless the distribution of individuals’ skills exhibits marked asymmetries. Last, we …

Migration has been associated with higher levels of trade. Previous studies interpret this as evidence of migrants …