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Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration
McKenzie, David J.; Yang, Dean - 2014
remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413159
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Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Yang, Dean - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a credible counterfactual of what the person and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317931
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Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Yang, Dean - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933691
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Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration
McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … offers support for a number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936529
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Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959609
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Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe; Joxhe, Majlinda; McKenzie, David; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper tests how migrants'willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … education raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829882
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Motivating migrants: A field experiment on financial decision-making in transnational households
Seshan, Ganesh; Yang, Dean - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 119-127
We randomly assigned male migrant workers in Qatar invitations to a motivational workshop aimed at improving financial habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13–17months later, we surveyed migrants and wives to estimate intent-to-treat impacts in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777153
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Experimental approaches in migration studies
McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - 2010
The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a credible counterfactual of what the person and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285434
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International Migration and Human Development
Yang, Dean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
about the impact of international migration and remittances on the economic and human development of migrants’ source … migration and remittances. First, governments should extend absentee voting rights to overseas citizens. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559034
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Remittances and Poverty in Migrants’ Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines.
Alvear, Claudia Martínez; Yang, Dean - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007
In many developing countries, remittance receipts from overseas are importantsupplements to household income. How do these remittance flows affect poverty andinequality in migrants’ home areas? To answer this question, we take advantage ofexogenous shocks to the remittance receipts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527254