The impact of foreign aid on migration revisited

LANATI, Mauro; THIELE, Rainer

The impact of foreign aid on migration revisited

dc.contributor.author	LANATI, Mauro
dc.contributor.author	THIELE, Rainer
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-21T09:28:18Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-21T09:28:18Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	While policymakers hope to stem migration flows by giving foreign aid, existing empirical evidence points in the opposite direction: by loosening budget constraints, aid tends to encourage people to emigrate. In this paper, we revisit the aid-migration link using a substantially extended and adjusted econometric approach based on a gravity model of international migration. In contrast to the previous literature, we obtain evidence of a negative relationship between aid and emigration rates. This even holds for the poorer part of recipient countries, which suggests that the budgetary constraint channel does not play a significant role in shaping migration decisions. The most plausible explanation for these contrasting results is that, unlike in previous studies, we use migrant flows rather than migrant stocks as the dependent variable.	en
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dc.identifier.issn	1830-7728
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/46124
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.hasversion	http://hdl.handle.net/1814/57744
dc.relation.ispartofseries	EUI MWP	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2017/05	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.subject	Aid	en
dc.subject	Migration	en
dc.subject	F22	en
dc.subject	F35	en
dc.subject	O15	en
dc.title	The impact of foreign aid on migration revisited	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
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