Advances in Empirical Migration Research

What are the causes and consequences of migration? In this course, we will look at how compositional and dynamic aspects of migration shape economic, political and cultural processes in the source and destination countries. We will read and discuss the various drivers of migration based economic development and cultural change. Synthesizing the conclusions of a number of seminal studies in the field and analyzing their empirical strategies, we will identify and critically evaluate the research papers. On the empirical side, topics to be covered include: Instrumental variable methods, differences-in-differences, regression discontinuity design and other empirical strategies. There will be deep-dives into various papers, where students prepare referee reports.