This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on The New Economics of the Brain Drain. In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the long-recognized impacts of the brain drain, longer-term consequences turn the...

This paper considers genetically modified (GM) seed adoption decisions by farmers in a developing country under two alternative information regimes (with and without perfect information regarding production conditions) that allows the monopolist producer of GM seeds to either practice perfect...

This paper provides a novel explanation of educated unemployment, which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that educated unemployment is caused by the perspective of international migration, that is, by the...

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...

Illegal migrants supply a valuable productive input: effort. But their status as illegals means that these migrants face a strictly positive probability of expulsion. A return to their country of origin entails reduced earnings when the wage at origin is lower than the wage at destination. This...

A wealth of research papers, reports, and newsprint demonstrate the wide international interest in the ecological deterioration in the Aral Sea Basin in Central Asia (CA). The demise of the Aral Sea is a symptom that results from intensive agricultural activities aiming at maximizing...

This paper contributes to explaining variation in violence in post-independence East Africa. By focussing on Tanzania and Uganda, our comparative 'most-similar-cases' research design ensures significant across- and within-case variation in violence against relatively similar background...

The paper examines the basic determinants behind the process of migration from Burkina Faso to Cote d'Ivoire. It uses a detailed household survey dataset on migration, natural resource management, risk management and solidarity collected in 2000 and 2002 in Northeastern Burkina Faso. In...