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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w26868 |
来源ID | Working Paper 26868 |
Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World | |
David Lagakos; Samuel Marshall; Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak; Corey Vernot; Michael E. Waugh | |
发表日期 | 2020-03-23 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | 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. |
主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Regional and Urban Economics |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26868 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584541 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Lagakos,Samuel Marshall,Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak,et al. Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World. 2020. |
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