Individuals and households decide whether or not to migrate–and whether or not to send
remittances if they do migrate–with the outcome of these choices depending upon their …

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the economics literature on the
remittances of international migrants, focusing primarily on empirical studies of their …

While economists have little question about the potential for liquidity constraints to influence
the migration decision, the relative importance of these constraints has resisted empirical …

Public health law research (PHLR) empirically studies the complicated ways that laws and
legal practices influence health. Because both law and public health encompass a vast …

Liquidity constraints in both labor and land influence the decision to migrate. The Stolypin
agrarian reform in Russia provides a unique natural experiment that exogenously varies …