Island of Sulawesi and find technology adoption to play a crucial role. We show that geography-induced migration together …

, intergenerational transmission of skills from parents to their children, and migration of the children. I find evidence of regression to … transmission but from rural to urban labor markets through migration. …

international migration, but there are potentially significant gains to migration between developing countries as well. …

this mobility. While most migration studies have focused on economic motivations, a small literature addresses the impact … of human development and, indirectly, capability deprivation. This case study of southern Honduras examines migration …. Econometric treatment of village-level net migration rates before Hurricane Mitch is undertaken. Improved living standards reduced …

developing country, which is able to estimate the causal effect of migration. We utilize a recent survey of urban-rural migrants …-level propensity to migrate, calculated from the Indonesian intercensal survey, as an instrument. We find that childhood migration to … the probability to be obese. Therefore, our results suggest a permanent, positive, and large effect of childhood migration …

the differential effects of external shocks across the regions. The model demonstrates how the internal migration regime … regional behavior until the shocks are large enough to overcome the isolation of local markets. The results show that migration …