Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due … to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections … migrants that were exogenously allocated to their first place of residence by German authorities. The empirical results reveal …

We review the theory of information cascades and social learning. Our goal is to describe in a relatively integrated …

quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance … flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants residing in Ireland was offered the possibility of contacting … remittance recipients' social pressure on migrants …

quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance … flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants residing in Ireland was offered the possibility of contacting … remittance recipients’ social pressure on migrants …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … by comparing the incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery, after allowing for the …