Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World

Lagakos, David; Marshall, Samuel; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Vernot, Corey; Waugh, Michael E.

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“…In most countries, nonagricultural workers have higher average schooling levels, averaging twice as many years of schooling as those working in agriculture. However, recent evidence from Brazil, China, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, and Tanzania suggests that observed gains from rural-to-urban migration are much smaller relative to the level of gaps that exist between urban and rural areas (Hicks et al 2017;Lagakos et al 2020).…”

Section: Jobs Skills and Amenities Attract Migrants To Towns And Citiesmentioning

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Place, Productivity, and Prosperity: Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development

Grover¹,

Lall²,

Maloney³

2022

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Section: Jobs Skills and Amenities Attract Migrants To Towns And Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place, Productivity, and Prosperity: Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development

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Lall²,

Maloney³

2022

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“…Empirically, there is thus a concern as to whether these surveys are subject to selection biases which may artificially inflate or deflate estimates of returns to migration. Lagakos et al (2020) examine the returns to migration for rural-urban migrants using nationally representative surveys in China, Ghana, Indonesia, Malawi, South Africa, and Tanzania. The authors rely on nationally representative panel surveys which made considerable efforts to track migrants across space.…”

Section: Returns To Migrationmentioning

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Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature

Selod¹,

Shilpi²

2021

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“…We learn that an international migration opportunity triples the migrant's earnings, and the remittances he sends doubles the incomes of his family in Bangladesh. These effects are much larger than the returns to rural-urban migration within Bangladesh, and within other developing countries (Lagakos et al, 2020).…”

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Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery

Mobarak

Sharif²,

Shrestha³

2021

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Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Place, Productivity, and Prosperity: Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development

Place, Productivity, and Prosperity: Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development

Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature

Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery

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