to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …

to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …

migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …

-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad suggest excessive migration pressure. Yet there is almost no statistical … incomes in the migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution …

migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …

to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …

more widely studied restrictions on international trade. But estimated gains from migration may be affected by selection …Migration of workers from developing to developed countries and the resulting remittance flows are important … development policies. World Bank calculations show that restrictions on international migration have larger welfare costs than the …

The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to migration using non-experimental data taking both observed and … unobserved characteristics into account. A significant challenge related to migration research and the issues of unobserved … continuous treatment and outcomes, both of which are not appropriate for models of migration and many outcomes of interest …

This study exploits a new longitudinal dataset to examine selective migration among 1,500 Kenyan youth originally … living in rural areas. We examine whether migration rates are related to individual “ability”, broadly defined to include … due to selection versus actual productivity differences. Whereas previous empirical work has focused on schooling …