We study the self-selection of migrants at crossing locations along the Mexican-U.S.border distinguished by stark differences in physiography and border enforcement intensities. Wemodel the triggers of hazardous crossings, and reveal self-selection patterns that are alternative specific:...

This paper considers and assesses the concept of social externalities through humaninterdependence, in relation to the economic analysis of externalities in the tradition of Pigou andArrow, including the analysis of the commons. It argues that there are limits to economic analysis. Our proposal...

This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the one hand, and climate and the natural environment, on the other. The longstanding, dominant economic development narrative largely ignores nature’s influence on factor productivity and stocks, even as it...

Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide, where a typical scene following the supply chain involves developing countries importing finished products from developed countries that contain developing country labor...