How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled …

that schooling. The theory developed here explains the forsaken schooling phenomenon, which shows that low-skilled and …

economy would thus be negatively affected. -- migration ; human capital ; fertility ; brain drain ; economic growth …