More than 100 million women and girls in the world have had their genitals cut for cultural, religious, or other non-medical reasons. Even though international organizations condemn female genital mutilation (FGM), or cutting, as a violation of human rights, and most nations have banned it, it...

This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by factor reallocation and remittances, and focusing on two (primarily) destination countries (Spain and Italy) and two (primarily) origin countries (Jordan and Iraq). Using LIS-ERF...

This paper investigates the impact of role models on intentions to migrate in rural Mali, implementing an RCT. Three documentaries are shown depicting successful life stories of non-migrants and migrants, and one unsuccessful migrant’s life story. None has significant average impact. We...