There are two seemingly competing branches of the literature on saving and duration-of-stay decisions of temporary migrants. One relies on the target-saving explanation and the other on utility maximization over a life cycle. We attempt to reconcile the two approaches within a framework where a...

Return migration exerts a wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether returnees adjust their fertility choices to the norms that prevail in their previous countries of destination using Egyptian household-level data. Egyptian men migrate predominantly...