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DESCRIPTION:Name: Charly Porcher (Dartmouth)\n	Date: April 7\, 2021\n	Time: 1
 4:00-15:00\n\n'Migration with Costly Information'\n\nAbstract:\n	Informatio
 n is critical for migration decisions. Yet\, depending on where individual
 s reside and who they interact with\, they may face different costs of acc
 essing information about employment opportunities. How does this imperfect
  and heterogeneous information structure affect the spatial allocation of 
 economic activity and welfare? To address this question\, I develop a quan
 titative dynamic model of migration with costly information acquisition an
 d local information sharing. Rationally inattentive agents optimally acqui
 re more information about nearby locations and learn about payoffs in othe
 r locations from the migrants around them. I apply this model to internal 
 migration in Brazil and estimate it using migration flows between regions.
  To illustrate its quantitative implications\, I evaluate the counterfactu
 al effects of the roll-out of broadband internet in Brazil. By allowing wo
 rkers to make better mobility choices\, expanding internet access increase
 s average welfare by 1.6%\, reduces migration flows by 1.2% and reduces th
 e cross-sectional dispersion in earnings by 4%.\n
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SUMMARY:Charly Porcher (Dartmouth)\, 'Migration with Costly Information'
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