The Effect of Migration on Productivity

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Is one reason for the productivity boost that migrants move from low productivity to high productivity locations? Well, that's a great question. And we as economists are very obsessed with causality versus correlation. So in those studies that you're mentioning, we do a great deal of work to try to convince a reader that it's not that they're following up the former but actually moving the know-how. But overall, I think it's a good example of how we are actually trying to deal with the first one.

Co-host Janet Bush talks with economist Dany Bahar. He is an associate professor of practice of international and public affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute and a senior fellow of the Growth Lab at the Harvard Center for International Development. He’s also a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development. Two themes stand out in his work: the diffusion of technology and knowledge, and migration. In this podcast, Bahar covers topics including the following: