World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 31, No. 3

What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World - David McKenzie and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and If So, When? -Tim Kaiser and Lukas Menkhoff

A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household’s Welfare in Rural Rwanda -Michael Grimm, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters, and Maximiliane Sievert

The Cost of Fear: The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda - Marc Rockmore

Identifying Gazelles: Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential -Marcel Fafchamps and Christopher Woodruff

On Minimizing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics - Alex Eble, Peter Boone, and Diana Elbourne

Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation - Kurt Annen and Luc Moers

The Impacts of India’s Food Security Policies on South Asian Wheat and Rice Markets - Nelson Benjamin Villoria and Elliot Wamboka Mghenyi

Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother’s Labor Supply -Dante Contreras and Paulina Sepúlveda

Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania - Anna Folke Larsen and Helene Bie Lilleør

The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children - Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek, Erik Plug, Juan Ponce, and José Rosero

The Effect of a Transfer Program for the Elderly in Mexico City on Co-Residing Children’s School Enrollment - Emilio Gutierrez, Laura Juarez, and Adrian Rubli

Wages of Chagrin

This article from The Economist discusses:

Naidu, S., Nyarko, Y., & Wang, S. Y. (2016). Monopsony Power in Migrant Labor Markets: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Political Economy, 124(6), 1735-1792.

Managed Labor Migration in Afghanistan: A Brief Review of the Academic Migration Literature

This paper presents key findings on the international experience with migration, focusing on the implications for a developing nation that is a country of origin. The paper identifies several areas of impacts: (1) increases in wages of individual migrants; (2) remittances; (3) impacts on skills and skill formation – those leaving acquire skills to enhance ability to migrate, and those returning often do so with acquired skills and work experience. 

Monopsony Power in Migrant Labor Markets: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

By exploiting a reform in the United Arab Emirates that relaxed restrictions on employer transitions, we provide new estimates of the monopsony power of firms over migrant workers.

Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data

Using new large-scale, administrative data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how migrants’ earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances.

The Economic Development Benefits of Human Mobility to Source Countries

Labor mobility is particularly significant in the case of the GCC; the region is host to around 15 million expatriate workers who generate US $80 billion in annual remittances each year and support and estimate 150 million dependents in their various home countries.

Stepping-stone mobility

People at the top of an occupational ladder earn more partly because they have spent time on lower rungs, where they have learned something. But what precisely do they learn?