This chapter reviews research on migrant selection, i.e. how those who migrate differ from people who stay in their country. After discussing the different ways in which migrant selection has been conceptualized in the social sciences, I show that it has proved hard to measure empirically because it requires data on migrants and stayers in the orig...
Published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration
We analyze the determinants of emigration at the individual and household level, using three waves of the Egyptian labor market panel survey (ELMPS) covering the 1998–2012 period. Exploiting the panel structure of the data allows us to reduce the risk of reverse causality and to estimate the effect of migrant networks more accurately than in studie...
Published in Psychiatry research
Our understanding of the relationship between immigration and mental health can be advanced by comparing immigrants pre- and post-immigration with residents of the immigrants' home countries. DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders were assessed using identical methods in representative samples of English-speaking Mexican immigrants to the US, a subsampl...
