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that migration yields no additional payoffs. However, there is no evidence that households benefit from higher education if … migration is only temporary. Altogether, this signals positive payoffs of educational expenses to rural households but …
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-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 allows us … siblings the migration occurs simultaneously in calendar time but at different developmental stages (ages). We find some …
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-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 allows us … migration occurs simultaneously in calendar time but at different developmental stages (ages). We find some evidence that the …
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different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of …'s territory, without adjusting for migration. Measures of the ethnic or linguistic heterogeneity of a country's current population …
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the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …
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-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
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We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration …
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There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international …, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls … for mainstreaming migration in development with some origin countries making specific attempts at incorporating migration …
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This working paper concerns the local origins of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States, circa 1900. New evidence is drawn from a large random sample of Russian-Jewish immigrant arrivals in the United States. It provides information on origins not merely by large regions, or even by the...
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