A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households … left behind. Answers to this question must confront a problem I refer to as invisible sample selection: when entire … country data, invisible sample selection yields biased estimates if all-move households differ from households that send only …

empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …-household selection into migration may suffer from substantial bias. …This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The …

Environmentally induced conflicts can trigger migration. This paper analyzes the location decisions of migrants, i … selection of migrants affects preferences over where to settle and depends on the underlying type of environmentally induced … conflict. In addition to (transport-related) migration costs, migration governance shapes the sorting pattern of migrants …

This paper examines the causal effects of air pollution on migration by exploiting a natural experiment in which …

This paper examines causal effects of air pollution on migration by exploiting a unique natural experiment of …

Conditional Cash Transfers are increasingly used by development aid agencies to reduce the incentives for migration … from low-income countries. The evidence to date suggests that such transfers typically increase the rate of migration when … human capital and by lowering capital constraints-increasing both migration aspirations and the means to achieve them. But …

International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …

overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a unique migration lottery that randomly assigns access to residence …

overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a unique migration lottery that randomly assigns access to residence …