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Does exposure to books foster a taste for spatial mobility? Home library size in childhood and adult migration intentions (2024)
Journal Article

Does exposure to books in childhood encourage adult migration? We contend that it does—through reading, which provides a simulative experience and arouses readers’ curiosity, as well as raising their openness to new experiences, awareness of opportun... Read More about Does exposure to books foster a taste for spatial mobility? Home library size in childhood and adult migration intentions.

Forced displacement and subsequent generations’ migration intentions: Intergenerational transmission of family migration capital (2023)
Journal Article

A growing body of evidence for the ‘family migration capital’ hypothesis–whereby migration experience in a family leads to a greater propensity to move among migrants’ descendants–has so far relied on accounts of any migration experience, including v... Read More about Forced displacement and subsequent generations’ migration intentions: Intergenerational transmission of family migration capital.