Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality: Theory and evidence from Mexico

By David J. McKenzie, Hillel Rapoport. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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International Remittances and Income Inequality: An Empirical Investigation (2006, positive): “According to the endogenous migration costs literature (Carrington et al., 1996), and the network effects hypothesis (McKenzie and Rapoport, 2004), we expect an increase in the income share held by the richest percentiles of the income distribution at the first stages of migration history.”
Migration, Remittances, Poverty, and Human Capital: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges (2007, background): “McKenzie and Rapoport (2006), researching migration-inequality links and using past migration to instrument for current migration, worry that persistent inequality was a factor determining migration both historically and at present.”
Migration and Children's Welfare in China: The Schooling and Health of Children Left behind (2010, background): “In another work, McKenzie and Rapoport (2004) find that migration had other less positive impacts on schooling, especially for children aged between 16 and 18.”
The Effect of Land Access on Youth Employment and Migration Decisions: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (2018, neutral): “the gains of staying behind outweigh any expected gains from moving (McKenzie and Rapoport, 2007) or diversifying out of agriculture among the extremely land rich (Bezu and Barrett, 2012).”
Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala (2005, methodology): “The historical aggregate migration rate has also been used before in the literature as an instrument by Hanson and Woodruff (2002) and McKenzie and Rapoport (2007) in the case of Mexico.”
Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature (2021, background): “McKenzie and Rapoport (2007) who examine the impacts of Mexican migrants to the United States on inequality in rural sending communities in Mexico find that such migration reduces inequality across communities with relatively high levels of past migration.”
Networks and Mis-allocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap (2015, neutral): “†University of Cambridge ‡Yale University”
Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution? (2009, background): “21 See Stark, Taylor and Yitzhaki (1986, 1988), Taylor (1992), Adams (1989, 1992), Lipton (1980), Stahl (1982), Barham and Boucher (1998) and McKenzie and Rapoport (2006).”
Evaluating the Economic Impact of International Remittances On Developing Countries Using Household Surveys: A Literature Review (2011, methodology): “For example, McKenzie and Rapoport (2007), using a two-stage least squares model and an instrumental variables approach focusing on historic state-level migration rates, find that in communities with low levels of international migration, the initial effect of migration is to increase income…”
The impact of parental migration on children’s school performance in rural China (2014, background): “Mckenzie and Rapoport(2007) indicate that children in migrant families are less likely to be attending school and complete less total schooling years than the children in non-migrant households.”
How Important is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration (2006, neutral): “Given the small size of Tonga, weather variation does not provide an instrument in our application - 35 - studies that use migration networks as an instrument (e.g. Woodruff and Zenteno, 2007, McKenzie and Rapoport, 2007).”