Economist @MathematicaNow. Development research, program eval, and all things migration. Proud Pinoy. Former @cgdev @umichECON @fordschool @ateneodemanilau
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🔥 Our revised paper on nurse migration is finally out! 🔥 We study whether the U.S's aggressive recruitment of nurses from the Philippines in the 2000s led to a "brain drain."
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One of the most popular articles of 2024 ➡️ Brain drain vs brain gain: Does international migration deplete poor countries of skilled workers?
by @pabarcar & @ctheoharides outlining their research on nurses migrating from the Philippines ⤵️
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Appreciated this keynote by @deankarlan at the GYEO 2024 conference, if only to be reminded of our role as economists in a room full of implementers. I certainly find myself as the only economist in the room at times.
These are hard questions, and requires going beyond logic models, collecting data. It requires testing ideas, and putting in place studies. Because a lot of times, we might find, we are wrong.
Anyway, I'll be here for the last day of the conference with @MathematicaNow. Please feel free to connect!
I am very late to read this paper (and the lit on graduation programs in general) but I thought this finding perfectly captures why development leads to migration and vice versa.
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In year 1: beneficiaries of the graduation program were richer because they had more productive assets (cows, goats)
In year 3: they were operating non-farm microenterprises and earning more money
In year 7: increased incomes were mostly from wage employment in cities
Any suggestions on papers that apply the Athey and Imbens 2016 causal tree approach and present the results really well? #Econtwitter
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Also, the biggest inequalities in life occur *where* you're born. Country of birth is the most important determinant of life outcomes. This is why more migration should be permitted.
Exposing firms to a refugee worker through a weeklong internship led them to hirednearly three times as many refugee workers compared to firms in the control group.
Fascinating intervention aimed to address misconceptions about refugee skills
voxdev.org/topic/labour-mark…
Unfortunately, one of the best examples of effective communication on migration is "brain drain." It conjures a vivid image. It rhymes.
A masterful reflection by @helen_dempster on why despite academic consensus on many things migration, we fail to influence the public or policymaking.
We preach to the choir instead of the middle...
We fail to offer compelling narratives...
cgdev.org/publication/influe…
A masterful reflection by @helen_dempster on why despite academic consensus on many things migration, we fail to influence the public or policymaking.
We preach to the choir instead of the middle...
We fail to offer compelling narratives...
cgdev.org/publication/influe…
Yes, many thanks to @mecaballero14 and @IWPResearch for today's great conference.
Thank you, @mecaballero14, and all the organizers of the @IWPResearch Care Conference for inviting me to present today! I learned a lot from so many engaging presentations!
Speaking today in a session on Care, Immigration, and Job Quality. Not too sure why they wanted a dev't economist to speak here 😂 but I want to bring a global perspective on healthcare workers and migration policy care.iwpr.org