Internal migration

Children are ubiquitous in African cities but largely absent from development economics research. Here’s what we know about children’s schooling once they’ve moved to the city.

Internal migration in Indonesia raises wages and improves access to formal employment for the workers left behind, particularly lower-educated workers, by easing labour supply pressures and reallocating jobs across the formal and informal sector.

Although most Mexicans remained in their communities during the drug war, the associated violence generated large welfare losses that are mostly invisible in standard migration statistics.

A large-scale randomised evaluation found that offering rural Kenyans information about earnings in the capital city increased migration and income.

Evidence from Brazil suggests that the crop-specific knowledge of domestic migrant farmers, during a period of large-scale migration, was a key driver of the recent transformation of the country’s export patterns – highlighting the importance of migr...

Internal migration of agricultural workers in India leads to a downsizing of farms near cities and an expansion in remote areas, prompting a spatial reorganisation of agriculture whereby remote, non-migrant households adopt more technology and expand...

Does exposure to other ethnic regions promote national integration?

Removing barriers to internal migration can boost a country’s productivity, albeit modestly and with heterogonous effects on original populations

India’s system of ‘fragmented entitlements’, whereby state residents get preferential treatment by the state government, hinders internal migration