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The impact of family size and sibling structure on the great Mexico-U.S. migration

Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2019

We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal effects of sibship size and structure on offspring's international migration. We use a rich demographic survey on the population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous...

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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China

Giles, John - 2006

Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is...

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Child Education-Induced Migration and its Impact on the Economic Behaviors of Migrated Households in China

YAN, WEIBO; Nie, Peng - 2022

Using the 2011-2013 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper utilizes the quarter of the year in which a child was born as an instrumental variable to measure child education shock and explores its impact on migrated households. We only find significant education-induced migration among boys,...

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When the Cat's Away... The Effects of Spousal Migration on Investments on Children

Rizzica, Lucia - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the spouses as a sequential game in which the spouse who...

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Maternal Employment, Migration, and Child Development

Liu, Haiyong; Mroz, Thomas A.; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2015

outcomes in the U.S. We investigate the interactions among and endogeneity of these inputs in the production of child outcomes … by specifying and estimating a behavioral model of parent's decisions that can affect these outcomes. We focus on two … development, modeled through a production function for child outcomes. The environment in which these decisions are made is …

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How do stamp duties affect the housing market?

Davidoff, Ian; Leigh, Andrew - 2013

Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental variable that is the stamp duty on a property, given that postcode's starting house price and the...

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Being poorer than the rest of the neighbourhood : relative deprivation and problem behaviour of youth

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Ham, Maarten van; Yu, Rongqin; … - 2016

According to the neighbourhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighbourhood wealth and youths' problem behaviour. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighbourhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioural problems in more...

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Transaction costs in housing markets

Ommeren, Jos van - 2008

According to economic theory, there are no strong reasons to tax (or to subsidise) residential moves, although low levels of taxation may be potentially justified to deal with the presence of externalities and economic stability. This is in contrast to practise in most countries where...

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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities

Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016

Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...

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Should I stay or should I go? : housing and residential mobility across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Pichelmann, Jacob - 2020

This paper delivers new evidence on the individual and policy drivers of residential mobility, covering a wide range of housing-related policies and conditions but also other relevant policy areas. The analysis uses household-level micro datasets allowing for an investigation of the drivers of...

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