Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico’s Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and … improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program’s potential longer-term consequences for the poverty …

In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of rural households in … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … per capita both increase with out-migration, and increase more for poorer households. We also establish a causal …

household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural …

resources, poverty and families, women and health related services, migration and mobility, the effect of civil and …

Ch.1. Migration, poverty & development in Africa -- Ch.2. Migration & development in West Africa -- Ch.3. Migration … & development in East Africa -- Ch.4. Migration & development in Southern Africa …

in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to …

This paper describes changes over the past 15-20 years in non-income measures of wellbeing—education and health …—in Africa. We expected to find, as we did in Latin America, that progress in the provision of public services and the focus of … public spending in the social sector would contribute to declining poverty and inequality in health and education, even in an …