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 …

inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of … Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after migration … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …

Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality …

rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper tests the effects of guest work on Indian applicants to a … information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …

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 …

. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a unique natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other …