Migration & Urbanisation

Increased uncertainty in India around US immigration policies led to firms relocating jobs from the US to India. Increasing rhetoric around restrictive immigration policy may increase offshoring, rather than promote domestic employment.

The cities of developing countries are growing rapidly. How can economists design urban policy to raise the living standards of urban households?

Cities can be engines of growth. How can policymakers realise the benefits of cities while minimising the drawbacks of urbanisation?

The regularisation of Venezuelan migrants had no significant effects on labour markets, political and social cohesion among Colombian natives, or crimes committed against Colombians while it enhanced the well-being and self-reliance of the forced mig...

Municipalities with oil pipelines in Mexico saw a 30% increase in cartel presence after the war on drugs began, resulting in severe economic and social impacts.

New data from 99 developing countries challenges conventional wisdom in development policy. People whose labour has higher returns at home are more likely to migrate.

Income increases for international migrants from the Philippines fostered economic development and investments in education in migrant-origin communities.

Prisons are meant to deter crime and rehabilitate inmates. Evidence from Colombia suggests that in some circumstances prisons actually foster rather than prevent crime.

An online, low-cost, scalable intervention that provided information and appealed to participants’ emotions improved prosociality behaviours and attitudes toward forced migrants from Venezuela