Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is … risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration …