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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …
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Migration and the autonomy of women left behind
Matz, Julia Anna; Mbaye, Linguère Mously - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of migration of male household heads on the autonomy of their spouses. Using panel household survey data from Ethiopia, the methodology mainly relies on an instrumental variables approach that addresses the endogeneity inherent in the relationship using past...
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Policy Analysis with Endogenous Migration Decisions : The Case of Left-Behind Children in China
Myerson, Rebecca - 2017
I present a model of parental decision-making with endogenous migration to study the human capital of children in migrant families, focusing on the case of rural China. I derive two main results related to (i) the effect of parental migration on children's human capital, and (ii) the effects of...
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Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens: comment
Stark, Oded - 2021
In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430651
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How Does Adult Child Migration Affect the Health of Elderly Parents Left Behind? Evidence from Mexico
Antman, Francisca - 2010
This paper considers whether the health of elderly parents is adversely affected by the international migration of their children. Estimation of a causal effect is complicated by the fact that children may migrate in response to a parent's health status and there may be other unobserved factors...
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International Migration, Human Capital, and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2006
Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments - in particular, in child human capital and household enterprises? This paper examines Philippine...
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Strategic Remittances of International Migrants
Zhu, Heng - 2021
Motives for remittance transfers and recipient’s subsequent use of remittance income is a widely researched topic in the economics of migration literature. However, choices over the format in which migrants send remittance is ill understood. Decisions over remittance transfers involve more...
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Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens : Comment
Stark, Oded - 2021
In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249121
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Who is an internal migrant?
Sharma, Rasadhika; Grote, Ulrike - 2019
There is no internationally accepted definition of an internal migrant. Different surveys and academic papers use varied definitions that are open to subjectivity. Our paper stresses this issue and tests the sensitivity of results obtained by econometric analysis to the use of different defining...
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