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Press Mentions

Migration research

Several papers cited in Global Economic Prospects 2006: Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration
World Bank publication, 2006.

"Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries?"
Cited in Filipino Families Divided by Distance, Economics, by Jennifer Ludden
NPR.org, May 10, 2006.

"International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment "
Cited in:
Remittances and Economic Shocks by D'Laarni Ortiz, Business World (Philippines), July 21, 2006.
Families of Overseas Workers Get Peso Windfall, Philippine News, September 15, 2004.
Peso Depreciation Provides Opportunities for Migrant Families to Improve Lives, by Villy Cabuag, Makiling Journal (Philippines), September 20, 2004.
Migrant Families Improve Lives on Peso Depreciation, by Villy Cabuag, Business World (Philippines), September 24, 2004.

"Salvadorans Overseas"
Cited in Just Grand at Home with the Money from Far Away, by Sara Silver
Financial Times, March 26, 2004, p. 9.

Guardian (UK) , Feb. 11, 2008

Gulf Times (Qatar) , Nov. 18, 2007

Wall Street Journal, Nov. 1, 2006

Arizona Daily Star, Nov. 17, 2006

La Prensa Grafica (El Salvador), Oct. 15, 2003

El Diario de Hoy (El Salvador), Oct. 15, 2003


Research on child health

Guest contributor (with Sharon Maccini) on Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog on "Under the Weather" paper, June 2, 2009

"Under the Weather" paper cited in Unconventional Wisdom, by columnist Richard Morin, Washington Post, May 11, 2006