Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration

Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized precipitation index. [CES Working Papers].

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Year of publication:	2013-09
Authors:	Dallmann, Ingrid ; Millock, Katrin
Institutions:	eSocialSciences
Subject:	migration \| data \| Indian census \| climate data \| climate variability \| push factor \| standardized precipitation index \| Internal Migration \| Inter-State Migration \| Indian \| flood events \| female \| environment \| economy \| drought \| economic drivers \| costs \| weather \| households \| urbanization \| farmlands \| soil erosion \| income \| cross-section data \| net vegetation \| gravity-type models \| India

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Institutional Papers
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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