1 option
Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies / McKenzie, David
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- McKenzie, David
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access to Finance.
- Anthropology.
- Consequences of migration.
- Culture and Development.
- Debt Markets.
- Family members.
- Family ties.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Immigration.
- Impact of migration.
- Job opportunities.
- Labor supply.
- Language proficiency.
- Lives of individuals.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Mental health.
- Migrant.
- Migrants.
- Migration.
- Policy research.
- Policy research working paper.
- Population Policies.
- Progress.
- Remittance.
- Remittances.
- Return migration.
- Sex.
- Local Subjects:
- Access to Finance.
- Anthropology.
- Consequences of migration.
- Culture and Development.
- Debt Markets.
- Family members.
- Family ties.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Immigration.
- Impact of migration.
- Job opportunities.
- Labor supply.
- Language proficiency.
- Lives of individuals.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Mental health.
- Migrant.
- Migrants.
- Migration.
- Policy research.
- Policy research working paper.
- Population Policies.
- Progress.
- Remittance.
- Remittances.
- Return migration.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (28 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2010
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration experiments provide a clear and credible way for identifying this counterfactual, and thereby allowing causal estimation of the impacts of migration. The authors provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments, natural experiments, and researcher-led field experiments. The purpose is to introduce readers to the need for this approach, give examples of where it has been applied in practice, and draw out lessons for future work in this area.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.