between 1 and 10 years there. This is known as the "sent-down youth" (SDY) program. This paper examines how this internal … migration impacted rural economic development in the regions that received a larger number of SDY per capita relative to regions …

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …

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 …