Mariapia Mendola
Migration and technological change in rural households: Complements or substitutes?
University of Milano-Bicocca|Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano
paper study interrelationship determinants migration conceived family strategy potential impact migrant household member people left behind labour migration often related poverty given lumpyinvestment nature lack resources may constitute motivation hurdle migrate use crosssectional household survey rural bangladesh test whether migration diversification strategy enables sending households uptake highyielding seed technology account heterogeneity migration constraints differentiating temporarydomestic permanentdomestic international movement find households able engage costly highreturn migration ie international migration likely employ modern farming technology thereby achieving higher productivity poorer households hand unable overcome entry costs crossborder movement fall back low netreturn ie domestic migration drive production enhancements may act povertytrap