Seminário NOVAFRICA: Melanie Morten, Stanford University

Quais são os efeitos da migração legal de curto prazo nas famílias nos países de origem?

Para dar início à Série de Seminários NOVAFRICA 2025/2026, temos o prazer de receber a Professora Melanie Morten da Stanford University, que apresentará seu paper na quarta-feira, 10 de setembro, às 11:30 (hora de Lisboa), na Sala D-115 da Nova School of Business and Economics, campus Carcavelos:

“The effects of legal short-term migration: Evidence from the H-2A program”

 
Resumo

In 2023, 300,000 temporary legal migrants worked on H-2A visas in the agricultural sector in the United States. These migrants — primarily men — hail primarily from Mexico. In this paper, we randomize H-2A seasonal visas for Mexican workers to work in the United States. We follow H-2A recruits  who did and didn’t receive the visa, alongside their households in Mexico, to understand the impact of migrating on consumption, investment decisions, individuals’ beliefs, and household dynamics.

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