Migrants Can Be a Transformative Force for Sustainable Development
Can the movement of people (including those displaced by climate change) aid sustainable solutions to environmental problems? Our research suggests that it can.
Research
How Does Accounting for Population Change Affect Estimates of the Effect of Immigration Policies on the Federal Budget?
We report estimates from the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) that exempting employment-based green cards from statutory limits for applicants (and their families) who have earned a doctoral or master
Scientific Frontiers on Migration and Sustainability
The great acceleration of economic activity and environmental degradation globally over the past decades is creating unprecedented challenges to the goals of sustainable development.
Migration and Sustainable Development
To understand the implications of migration for sustainable development requires a comprehensive consideration of a range of population movements and their feedback across space and time.
Climate action: Implications for factor market reallocation
This paper considers climate policies, not from the perspective of their environmental impacts, but rather their likely effects on labor and investments.
Using Satellite Imagery to Detect the Impacts of New Highways: An Application to India
This paper integrates daytime and nighttime satellite imagery into a spatial general-equilibrium model to evaluate the returns to investments in new motorways.
Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates
This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and establishes several new results.
Washington’s New Trade Consensus And What It Gets Wrong
If the era of hyperglobalization started in 1995, with the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), its death throes began in early 2018, when U.S.
New rules for a challenged trading system: the role of safeguards
This chapter draws attention to the potential of safeguards in a system with a variable geometry. Section 1 considers the benefits from safeguards, but also the need to discipline their use.
Designing a public transit network: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia
Examining the expansion of Jakarta’s bus system shows how simple improvements in public transport service quality can boost usage
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