. 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 household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …

to address the second selectivity issue. Using this natural experiment we examine the myriad impacts that migration has …The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved …

to address the second selectivity issue. Using this natural experiment we examine the myriad impacts that migration has …The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved …

, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but guaranteed income stream increases US migration … collateral to finance the migration. The individuals who start migrating because of this income shock belong to households with …. These results suggest that financial constraints to international migration are binding for poor Mexicans, some of whom …

This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical … model and evaluate it on children aged 10 to 14 using two decades of Census data. In our model, migration impacts child … individual-level child-labor analysis with an empirical study of the labor-market impact of internal migration within Brazil. We …

, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained …

A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households … a subset of their members abroad. I address this identification problem and derive nonparametric bounds within a … large, but transparent assumptions regarding behaviors of household members and selectivity of migrants allow identification …

in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …

view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …