Thailand in 2003, this paper investigates whether household composition has any effect on the welfare of children, as measured …In many developing countries the composition of rural households is influenced by the migration of adult household … members to urban locations in search of employment. Children may be left in the care of their mother alone, or in the care of …

patterns, namely local diversification and migration, and their relationship. Drawing on the theoretical and empirical … literature, we identify the advantages and drawbacks of local diversification versus migration decision in terms of expected pay … Groundnut Basin, the present paper examines whether local diversification and migration are complements or substitutes, by …

New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory posits a complex relationship between migrants and household income … generation. This paper uses NELM and original survey data to examine the impacts of migration on income sources in Northeast … China. Migration is found to increase farm incomes but decrease self-employed incomes. …

In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of rural households in … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … per capita both increase with out-migration, and increase more for poorer households. We also establish a causal …

of migration. Information on migration flows from both family migrant networks and community migrant networks. Direct … reducing the costs of migration. Using data from a national survey of rural Mexican households, we show the importance of … networks in both the decision to migrate and the level of migration. We find that community and family networks are substitutes …

Drawing on the literature of occupational status and social distance, a theory is developed of labor migration that is … is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between two identical … economies. Hence, a new model of migration is presented in which migration arises from a wish to reap social exposure gains. The …