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  1. Border walls
    Author: Allen, Treb; Castro Dobbin, Cauê de; Morten, Melanie
    Published: November 2018
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 25267
    Subjects: Grenze; Wirkungsanalyse; Arbeitsmigranten; Qualifikation; USA; Mexiko
    Scope: 59 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  2. Border walls
    Author: Allen, Treb; Dobbin, Caue; Morten, Melanie
    Published: November 2018
    Publisher:  SIEPR, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford, CA

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    Series: Working paper / Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) ; no. 18, 037 (November, 2018)
    Subjects: Grenze; Wirkungsanalyse; Arbeitsmigranten; Qualifikation; USA; Mexiko
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 101 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Migration and informal insurance
    Author: Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; Morten, Melanie
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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    Edition: Current version: July 10, 2019
    Series: Cowles Foundation discussion paper ; no. 2185 (July 2019)
    Subjects: Informal Insurance; Migration; Bangladesh; RCT
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  4. Migration and informal insurance
    Author: Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; Morten, Melanie
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Economic Growth Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT

    Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in... more

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    Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration opportunities arise. We estimate the model and find that welfare gains from migration subsidies are 42% larger, compared with the welfare gains without spillovers, once we account for the changes in risk sharing. Our analysis illustrates that (a) ignoring the spillover effects on the network gives an incomplete picture of the welfare effects of migration, and (b) informal risk sharing may be an essential determinant of the takeup of new income-generating technologies.

     
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    Edition: Current version: July 10, 2019
    Series: Economic Growth Center discussion paper ; no. 1064
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 79 Seiten), Illustrationen
  5. Migration and informal insurance
    Author: Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; Morten, Melanie
    Published: July 2019
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 26082
    Scope: 77 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  6. The remitting patterns of African migrants in the OECD
    Author: Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; Morten, Melanie
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  World Bank, Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Team, Washington, DC

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    Series: Policy research working paper ; 5260
    Subjects: Rücküberweisungen; OECD-Staaten; Afrika
    Scope: Online-Ressource (48 S.), graph. Darst.
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    Literaturverz. S. 28 - 29
  7. Remittances and the brain drain revisited
    the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
    Author: Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Bar-Ilan Univ., Dep. of Economics, Ramat-Gan

    Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions... more

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    Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting. Combining these intensive and extensive margins gives an overall positive effect of education on the amount remitted. The microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain Drain ; Education

     
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    Series: Working papers / Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics ; 2009,26
    Subjects: Rücküberweisungen; Brain Drain; Internationale Migration; Arbeitsmigranten; Bildungsniveau; Welt
    Scope: Online-Ressource (43 S.)
  8. A personal touch
    text messaging for loan repayment
    Author: Karlan, Dean; Morten, Melanie; Zinman, Jonathan
    Published: 2012

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    Series: NBER working paper series ; 17952
    Subjects: Finanzmarkt; Mikrofinanzierung; Anleihe; Risiko; Informationsversorgung; Moral Hazard; Philippinen
    Scope: 11, [6] S.
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  9. The aggregate productivity effects of internal migration
    evidence from Indonesia
    Author: Bryan, Gharad; Morten, Melanie
    Published: June 2017
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 23540
    Subjects: Regionale Arbeitsmobilität; Arbeitsproduktivität; Regionaler Preisindex; Humankapital; Schätzung; Indonesien; 1995-2012
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  10. A personal touch
    text messaging for loan repayment
    Author: Karlan, Dean; Morten, Melanie; Zinman, Jonathan
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Yale Univ., Economic Growth Center [u.a.], New Haven, Conn.

    We worked with two microlenders to test impacts of randomly assigned reminders for loan repayments in the "text messaging capital of the world". We do not find strong evidence that loss versus gain framing or messaging timing matter. Messages only... more

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    We worked with two microlenders to test impacts of randomly assigned reminders for loan repayments in the "text messaging capital of the world". We do not find strong evidence that loss versus gain framing or messaging timing matter. Messages only robustly improve repayment when they include the loan officer's name. This effect holds for clients serviced by the loan officer previously but not for first-time borrowers. Taken together, the results highlight the potential and limits of communications technology for mitigating moral hazard, and suggest that personal obligation/reciprocity between borrowers and bank employees can be harnessed to help overcome market failures. -- microcredit ; microfinance ; randomized evaluation ; development finance

     
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    Series: Center discussion paper / Economic Growth Center ; 1011
    Economics Department working paper / Yale University ; 102
    Subjects: Finanzmarkt; Mikrofinanzierung; Anleihe; Risiko; Informationsversorgung; Moral Hazard; Philippinen
    Scope: Online Ressource (PDF-Datei: 11 S., 310,54 KB)
  11. Encouragement and distortionary effects of conditional cash transfers
    Author: Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Morten, Melanie; Smits, Joeri
    Published: April 2021
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty or achieve other social goals by making the transfers conditional upon the receivers' actions. Conditions are designed to encourage some desirable behavior that recipients might otherwise... more

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    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty or achieve other social goals by making the transfers conditional upon the receivers' actions. Conditions are designed to encourage some desirable behavior that recipients might otherwise under-invest in. An unintended consequence of the conditionality may be to distort recipients' actions in ways that lower their welfare. The transfer size plays an important role in shaping such distortionary effects. In certain circumstances, a larger transfer increases distortion more than that it raises benefits from stronger encouragement, implying that (i) there is an optimal transfer size for CCTs, and (ii) unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) may be better than CCTs when the transfer amount is large. We illustrate a range of distortions arising from CCT programs around the world. We then introduce an experimental design that permits a test of this distortionary effect, and implement it in a cash transfer program conditional on seasonal labor migration in rural Indonesia. We find that when the transfer size exceeds the amount required for travel expenses, distortion increases and CCT program outcomes deteriorate.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 14326
    Subjects: conditional cash transfers; distortion; seasonal migration
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 39 Seiten), Illustrationen
  12. Migration and informal insurance
    Author: Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; Morten, Melanie
    Published: 8-22-2020
    Publisher:  Yale University, Economic Growth Center, [New Haven, CT]

    Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in... more

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    Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration and risk sharing shows that risky and temporary migration opportunities can induce an improvement in risk sharing enabling profitable migration. Accounting for improved risk sharing, the migration experiment increased welfare by 12.9%. However, permanent declines in migration costs improve outside options for households and can lead to reductions in risk sharing. The short-run experimental results for migration subsidies can differ from the longer-run impacts of a policy that permanently subsidizes migration.

     
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    Edition: Current version: August 22, 2020
    Series: Discussion papers / Economic Growth Center ; 1072
    Subjects: Informal Insurance; Migration; Bangladesh; RCT
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 95 Seiten), Illustrationen
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    Zählung der Vorauflage: no. 1064
  13. Encouragement and distortionary effects of conditional cash transfers
    Author: Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Morten, Melanie; Smits, Joeri
    Published: 4-14-2021
    Publisher:  Yale University, Economic Growth Center, [New Haven, CT]

    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become increasingly popular as a development strategy. These programs aim to reduce poverty or achieve other social goals by making the transfers conditional upon the receivers' actions. Conditions are... more

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    Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have become increasingly popular as a development strategy. These programs aim to reduce poverty or achieve other social goals by making the transfers conditional upon the receivers' actions. Conditions are designed to encourage some desirable behavior that recipients might otherwise under-invest in. An unintended consequence of the conditionality may be to distort recipients' actions in ways that lower their welfare. The transfer size plays an important role in shaping such distortionary effects. In certain circumstances, a larger transfer increases distortion more than that it raises benefits from stronger encouragement, implying that (i) there is an optimal transfer size for CCTs, and (ii) unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) may be better than CCTs when the transfer amount is large. We illustrate a range of distortions arising from CCT programs around the world. We then introduce an experimental design that permits a test of this distortionary effect, and implement it in a cash transfer program conditional on seasonal labor migration in rural Indonesia. We find that when the transfer size exceeds the amount required for travel expenses, the distortion created induces additional individuals to migrate who have lower (possibly even negative) migration returns, weakening overall program impacts.

     
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    Series: Discussion papers / Economic Growth Center ; 1085
    Subjects: Conditional cash transfers; Distortion; Seasonal migration
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 23 Seiten), Illustrationen
  14. Paving the way to development
    costly migration and labor market integration
    Author: Morten, Melanie; Oliveira, Jaqueline
    Published: April 2016
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 22158
    Subjects: Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; Marktintegration; Regionale Arbeitsmobilität; Binnenwanderung; Migrationsökonomie; Kosten; Räumliche Erreichbarkeit; Räumliches Gleichgewichtsmodell; Räumliche Verteilung; Theorie; Hauptstadt; Brasilia; Entwicklung; Brasilien
    Scope: 69 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  15. Temporary migration and endogenous risk sharing in village India
    Author: Morten, Melanie
    Published: April 2016
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 22159
    Subjects: Binnenwanderung; Landflucht; Regionale Arbeitsmobilität; Befristete Beschäftigung; Risikomanagement; Theorie; Dorfentwicklung; Ländlicher Raum; Indien
    Scope: 76 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  16. Network-based hiring
    local benefits, global costs
    Author: Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Morten, Melanie; Peter, Alessandra
    Published: February 2020
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 26806
    Subjects: Personalauswahl; Soziales Netzwerk; Unternehmenswachstum
    Scope: 55 Seiten, Illustrationen
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