We argue that overconfidence wrongly inflates the expected returns to a risky income-generating activity. Overconfidence thus increase the...

A core result of the aid allocation literature is that the quality of governance in recipient countries does not affect the amounts of foreign...

Behavior is a way for organisms to respond flexibly to the environmental conditions they encounter. Our own species occurs in a variety of...

The current asylum system is contradictory, unfair, and both costly and hazardous for all involved. Under the present rules, refugees can...

International migration generates large benefits for migrants and their family members who stay behind. But migrants’ socio-economic...

Successful integration is more likely if the preferences of refugees and host locations are taken into account. A proposal by Hillel Rapoport...

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that...

We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences of men and women...

Little is known about the drivers of migrant donations to their home countries. Using data on all donations from Filipino migrants...

This paper studies the employment effects of one of the largest forced population movements in history, the influx of millions of German...

This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were...

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that...

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is the first...

Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem of global scale, but quantitative research on the issue barely exists. This paper is a first...

This paper investigates changes in income diversification patterns for the case of Burkina Faso between 1994 and 2003. Contrary to common...

Losing a parent is a trauma that has consequences for human capital formation. Does it matter at what age this trauma occurs? Using...

Empirical evidence on the targeting of private aid is largely lacking, even though corporate donors are an increasingly important source of...

This paper evaluates the effect of AIDS-related mortality on per-capita incomes of surviving household members, using a large nationally...