This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics
but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional …

We investigate whether individuals' risk preferences change after experiencing a natural
disaster, specifically, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of …

We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in
Germany from 1987 to 2009. Looking at the entire political spectrum, we find that only …

BACKGROUND Studies of internal migration ask who moves, why they move, and what are
the consequences–to themselves, their origin, and their destination. By contrast, studies of …

Using comprehensive data for German establishments, we estimate plant-level production
functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish …

Migration has always involved stress and risk. More risk-averse households are less likely to
move, while less risk-averse households will seek out opportunities and migrate. We …

Purpose. The aim of the article was to identify and analyze negative trends, substantiate
practical recommendations for improving regional policy for preserving human resources by …

Abstract The Carpathian Region (Zakarpattia, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Ivano-Frankivsk) is
inferior to other regions in Ukraine regarding its economic development, which does not …

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to identify trends in external migration of the
population in the Carpathian region of Ukraine and to develop applied recommendations for …