The Harris-Todaro model (often called simply “the Todaro model”1) describes migration across two sectors of an economy when there is unemployment in one or both sectors. Migration into destinations with high unemployment at first glance ...
1n Samoan Worlds : Culture , Migration , 1dentity and Albert Wendt , " in R. King , J. Connell , and P. White ( eds . ) , Writing Across Worlds : Literature and Migration . London : Routledge , pp . 263-79 . - ( 1997 ) .
... Miller Lois D. Rice Elliot L. Richardson William D. Ruckelshaus Herbert E. Scarf Charles L. Schultze William W. Scranton Cyrus R. Vance James Vorenberg Mortimer B. Zuckerman Figure 2.2 FARM WORKER MIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA FROM SIX -
Written for students in economics and for professionals interested in continuing an education in econometrics, this succinct text not only teaches best practices and state-of-the-art techniques, but uses vivid examples and data obtained ...
The chapters in this book are less about topics than about providing a window into how developing economies are different and how this shapes the way we study them.
Why Care About Causation?
By mastering the material in this book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to higher-level development economics courses.
Other books are too big, too old, or too dry. This book is none of these.
For simplicity, though, in the rest of this book we use “SAM-LEWIE” to refer to SAM-based local economy-wide impact-evaluation models and “GE-LEWIE” to refer to more flexible GE models. Some ofthe fundamental differences between ...
Other books are too big, too old, or too dry. This book is none of these.
This book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of development projects and policies on local economies.
... Development economists have made considerable strides both to implement RCTs where they are feasible, and to seek out other methods to evaluate impacts where they are not. 1.2.1 Econometric ... Beyond experiments in development economics.