Public opinion tends to look at Zambia as some mythical land of promise,predestined to enjoy for years to come the same sort of economic bliss as duringthe copper price boom of 1964 -75. But there can be little doubt that one of themost striking facts of Zambia's economic histor…
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This dissertation studies how internal migration and labor mobility shape labor productivity in different contexts. In the first chapter, with Daniel Lopes and Leonardo Monasterio, I investigate how descendants of immigrants have spread the impacts of historical immigration in B…
Family disruption, health hazards, degradation, and physical and psychological abuse are common among migrant female headload porters in Southern Ghana. Microfinance is well-documented as a socioeconomic remedial tool for poor women in some developing economies. Little is known,…
This dissertation studies the migration of individuals and the migration of nuclear family units from households in rural Matlab to urban areas of Bangladesh. A model of the determinants of individual versus family migration tests the factors leading to migration as a community-…
Southern Appalachia in the late 1800s enjoyed a vital, stable, relatively homogeneous society as close to the Jeffersonian yeoman ideal as anywhere in rural America. In the last generation of the 19th and the first of the 20th century it felt the effect of both internal and exte…
There is no lack of studies on the contribution of rural-urban migration to the urbanisation process in Southeast Asia. This study goes beyond the common tradition. The huge urban complex of contemporary Jakarta structures the mass migration of the Jakarta's low income groups th…