Rural labor market frictions in developing countries
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores several issues affecting the labor supply decisions of individuals living in rural parts of developing countries. In the following three chapters, I investigate 1) information failures that suppress rural-urban migration, 2) labor rationing in agricultural markets, and 3) interactions in the rural-urban migration decisions across sibling cohorts. The first chapter is titled "Hidden Income and the Perceived Returns to Migration: Experimental Evidence from Kenya." I use two randomized controlled trials and collect new data linking migrants to sending households to show that rural households substantially underestimate urban incomes, and that this holds migrants back from migrating to a big city. The second chapter is titled "When Time is Not Money, Cash is Priceless." We find evidence of credit constraints and labor rationing, and offer and test a methodology for researchers to measure the shadow wage in agricultural labor markets. The third chapter is titled "Intrahousehold Spillovers in the Migration Decision: Evidence from Thailand's Regional Cities Program." I use an instrumental variables approach combined with historical information about a federal government infrastructure development program in Thailand to identify a migration spillover effect across sibling cohorts. I show that results are consistent with a model in which villagers learn about the returns to migration from migrant siblings.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Baseler, Travis Andreas |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Dupas, Pascaline |
| Thesis advisor | Dupas, Pascaline |
| Thesis advisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Thesis advisor | Chandrasekhar, Arun G |
| Thesis advisor | Morten, Melanie |
| Degree committee member | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Degree committee member | Chandrasekhar, Arun G |
| Degree committee member | Morten, Melanie |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Travis A. Baseler. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Travis Andreas Baseler
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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