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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Stillman, Steven - 2009
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining whilst other households migrate en masse. We address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532941
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Stillman, Steven - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining whilst other households migrate en masse. We address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317974
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The impact of migration on family left behind : estimation in presence of intra-household selection of migrants
Murard, Elie - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974338
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Migration and remittances in Haiti: Their welfare impact on poor and non-poor households
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; … - 2019
The purpose of this study is to identify a person's likelihood of emigrating to another country and to identify a household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of receiving remittances on household welfare, across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110453
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Migration and remittances in Haiti : their welfare impact on poor and non-poor households
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; … - 2019
The purpose of this study is to identify a person's likelihood of emigrating to another country and to identify a household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of receiving remittances on household welfare, across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110433
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Endogeneity and sample selection in a model for remittances
Bettin, Giulia; Lucchetti, Riccardo; Zazzaro, Alberto - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 370-384
remit, instrumental variable variants of the double-hurdle and Heckit selection models are proposed and estimated by Limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599692
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269660
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532676