Wealth Heterogeneity and the Income Elasticity of Migration

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The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration (2018, background): “…these moments help the model to jointly fit key aggregate facts from the Bangladeshi economy relevant for 9For the case of international migration, Bazzi (2017) finds that credit constraints limit emigration from poorer rural areas in Indonesia, though in more developed rural areas, those with…”
Climate change and migration: Is agriculture the main channel? (2019, background): “12See, for example, McGuirk and Burke (2017), who studied the relationships between food price changes and conflicts in Africa countries, or Bazzi (2017) who showed that positive agricultural income shocks increase or decrease emigration in Indonesia, depending on the size distribution of landholder”
Harvesting Prosperity: Technology and Productivity Growth in Agriculture (2019, background): “Misallocation and Productivity Growth 59 flows (on available opportunities); job search costs; amenity differences; familiarity (such as uncertainty associated with an unknown place); credit or financial constraints; or lack of insurance to compensate for informal networks to cope with livelihood ri”
Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia (2016, background): “See Bazzi (2014) for further evidence of spatial variation in rice prices across Indonesia.”