Barker, Nathan; Davis, C. Austin; López-Peña, Paula; … - 2020
Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 … pandemic. We create pre- and post-COVID panel datasets for three populations in Bangladesh and Nepal, leveraging experimental … and observational variation in prior migration dependence. We report 25 per cent greater declines in earnings and fourfold …