Applied econometricians frequently apply the inverse hyperbolic sine (or arcsinh)
transformation to a variable because it approximates the natural logarithm of that variable …

The basic economic model of labor supply has a very clear prediction of what we should
expect when an adult receives an unexpected cash windfall: they should work less and earn …

Do negative shocks in origin countries encourage or inhibit international migration? What
roles do networks play in modifying out-migration responses? The answers to these …

While measured remittances by migrant workers have recently soared, macroeconomic
studies have difficulty detecting their effect on economic growth. We propose three new …

South Asians traveling to richer Asian nations is the world's largest migration corridor. We
track down applicants to a government lottery that randomly allocated visas to Bangladeshis …

Contemporary approaches for evaluating the demand for reinforcers use either the
Exponential or the Exponentiated model of operant demand, both derived from the …

How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of
migrantorigin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous and …

This paper provides an overview of the main findings from the last decade of scholarship on
the poverty-inequality-migration nexus. The compilation of new datasets at both the cross …

We present evidence on evolving dietary patterns in Nigeria using six rounds of household
consumption data from the Nigerian General Household Survey panel between 2011 and …

Due to concerns about human trafficking, Japan restricted the flow of Filipino migrants into
performing arts jobs, effectively closing the Philippines' largest migration channel. I exploit …