across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation … are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network variables. Correlation of unobservables …

While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration … around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …

investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may … choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo …

experience. The results point to a statistically significant positive effect of paternal U.S. migration on education for girls …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will …

Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover … effects - fellow migrants share information with other neighboring migrants, thereby lowering the costs of migration. To … growth in the number of succeeding migrants. We find that current and past migration from one municipality induces …

the past literature. However, using instrumental variables based on migration enclaves, we show that immigrants have a …

in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of networks on migration decisions through the … migration. Yet we find no evidence that the quality of the network affects the timing of migration. …