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Migration costs and observational returns to migration in the developing world
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Lagakos, David, Marshall, Samuel, Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfi, Vernot, Corey and Waugh, Michael E. (2020) Migration costs and observational returns to migration in the developing world. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS), 1265 . (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Recent studies find that observational returns to rural-urban migration are near zero in three developing countries. We revisit this result using panel tracking surveys from six countries, finding higher returns on average. We then interpret these returns in a multi-region Roy model with heterogeneity in migration costs. In the model, the observational return to migration confounds the urban premium and the individual benefits of migrants, and is not directly informative about the welfare gain from lowering migration costs. Patterns of regional heterogeneity in returns, and a comparison of experimental to observational returns, are consistent with the model’s predictions.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Rural-urban migration -- Developing countries, Migration, Internal -- Developing countries, Migration -- Economic conditions, Migrant labor -- Developing countries., Developing countries -- Economics policy, Developing countries -- Economic policy -- Econometric models | ||||||
Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||||
ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 1265 | ||||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 March 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 March 2018 |
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