education in the migration premium. By separating migrants into those that moved out of original villages but remained within … at both destinations. However, whilst the higher return on education fully explains the gains associated with migration …Given the migration premium previously identified in an impact evaluation approach, this paper asks the question of why …

After a brief overview of the types of evidence on the role of distance in affecting migration, the paper critically … examines a number of hypotheses as to why distance might deter migration, then draws out some implications for the emergence …

This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …

In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that … migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that takes the change in household size into account is …

This paper explores hypotheses of hierarchical migration using data from the Alaskan Arctic. We focus on migration of … Iñupiat people, who are indigenous to the region, and explore the role of income and subsistence harvests on migration. To … Income and generate migration probabilities using a mixed multinomial and conditional logit model. Our findings are broadly …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly …-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …

after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later, and three … re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. We document several pieces of …