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Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World / David Lagakos, Samuel Marshall, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Corey Vernot, Michael E. Waugh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lagakos, David.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26868.
- NBER working paper series no. w26868
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2020.
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