The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

By John Kennan, J. R. Walker. 2003

905 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/29d347b561e3bbca702b4a7910b0a4bef4278459

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia (2016, neutral): “The Review of Economic Studies, 79: 128–161.”
Demographic Origins of the Startup Deficit (2019, neutral): “Drawing on Kennan and Walker (2011), who estimate an average moving cost of $312, 000 (in 2010 dollars), we argue this is likely the case.”
Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admissions, and Enrollment in the College Market (2012, neutral): “56 Studies on migration decisions often find that both the mean and the dispersion of moving costs are substantial ðe.g., Kennan and Walker 2011Þ. equilibrium in the college market 253 barriers to applying for colleges other than their ability and preferences: for example, the cost to collect…”
Does Development Reduce Migration? (2014, background): “Kennan and Walker (2011) find a negative association between income and intra-US migration in a long panel, but credit constraints are less likely to bind within a rich country.”
A practitioners' guide to gravity models of international migration (2016, positive): “These simple observations call for rewriting location-specific utility in a way that explicitly reflects the sequential nature of the location-decision problem that would-be migrants face, following the literature on dynamic discrete choice models (Artuç, Chaudhuri, and McLaren, 2010; Arcidiacono an”
Commuting, Migration, and Local Employment Elasticities (2018, background): “This gravity equation prediction is consistent with the existing empirical literature on commuting and migration, including McFadden (1974), Grogger and Hanson (2011) and Kennan and Walker (2011).”
Learning Your Comparative Advantages (2014, background): “This can be particularly important when considering the observed prevalence of return migration (Kennan and Walker (2011)).”
Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India (2019, methodology): “An alternative way to model migration would be to model unobserved preference (or unobserved cost) shocks, as in Kennan and Walker (2011). This would make the migration rule probabilistic.”
The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration (2018, background): “Households can migrate either permanently or temporarily across locations, as in Kennan and Walker (2011), and face both a monetary cost of migration and a non-monetary disutility from migration that depends on past migration experience.”
A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods (2016, neutral): “While several systematic factors are relevant for explaining these patterns, a primary In an important recent contribution to the sorting literature, Kennan and Walker (2011) model inter-state migration decisions by forward-looking agents, focusing on the role of expected income in a job-search fram”
The Persistence of Local Joblessness (2018, background): “…to estimate precisely the discount factor that measures the relative importance of current and future conditions (see, for example, Gallin, 2004; Kennan and Walker, 2011) and often impose a value, thus assuming agents have rational expectations when this is a hypothesis one would like to test.”