Does Migration Make Rural Households More Productive? Evidence from Mexico
利用墨西哥家庭调查数据，研究了移民和汇款如何影响农村家庭的收入和土地及人力资本的生产力，发现移民通过汇款和提高土地生产力增加了人均收入。
Abstract The migration of labour out of rural areas and the flow of remittances from migrants to rural households are an increasingly important feature of less developed countries. This paper explores ways in which migration influences incomes and productivity of land and human capital in rural households over time, using new household survey data from Mexico. Our findings suggest that a massive increase in migration to the United States increased per-capita incomes via remittances and also by raising land productivity in migrant-sending households. They do not support the pessimistic view that migration discourages production in migrant-sending economies, nor the view implicit in separable agricultural household models that migration and remittances influence household incomes but not production.