from low-income countries. The evidence to date suggests that such transfers typically increase the rate of migration when …Conditional Cash Transfers are increasingly used by development aid agencies to reduce the incentives for migration … human capital and by lowering capital constraints-increasing both migration aspirations and the means to achieve them. But …

's migration has a positive effect on early cognitive development. We attribute these findings to changes in income and to the …This paper provides unique evidence of the positive consequences of seasonal migration for investments in early … childhood development. We analyse migration in a poor shockprone border region in rural Nicaragua where it offers one of the …

determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …. The results indicate that while there is a strong and positive impact associated with overall migration, the national …

This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the … migration, we then survey the theoretical and empirical brain drain literature in a unified framework. Finally we use a …

coincided with the greatest waves of European migration (1880, 1910) in order to uncover the settlement patterns of migrants of … determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …, including income per capita, population, the unemployment rate, the educational attainment of the population, the percentage of …

, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super …-entrepreneurs and that the (positive) developmental impact of migration is more significant through other channels. Removal of …