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Higher economic growth in poor countries, lower migration flows to the OECD : revisiting the migration hump with panel data

Bencek, David; Schneiderheinze, Claas - 2020

Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sectional evidence, the "migration hump" is often treated as a causal relationship. Since the peak is located at rather high per capita incomes of...

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A Note on the Analysis of Female-Headed Households in Developing Countries

Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2006

In this paper, we will attempt to clarify some issues commonly found in recent discussions surrounding female headship analysis, in general, and will also discuss recent literature on the relationship between female headship and poverty, in particular. The issues addressed here include: the...

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'Arranged' Marriage, Dowry and Female Literacy in a Transitional Society

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Mukherjee, Diganta - 2004

daughters, in a dualistic transitional economy, where preferences conflict across generations and the marriage market exhibits …

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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South

Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...

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The effect of foreign aid on migration : global micro evidence from world bank projects

Fuchs, Andreas; Gröger, André; Heidland, Tobias; … - 2023

term. We combine newly geocoded data on World Bank aid project allocation at the subnational level over the period 2008 …--2019 with exceptionally rich survey data from a sample of almost one million individuals across the entire developing world and … show that in the short term (after the announcement of a World Bank project and within two years after project disbursement …

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