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Heterogeneity in migration responses to climate shocks : evidence from Madagascar
Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca; … - 2021
We analyze the impact of climate events on migration among a cohort of young adults residing in rural Madagascar. We … find a strong negative impact of drought on the decision of youth to migrate in the year after the adverse weather shock … cushion the blow of the shock on the resources required to finance migration. We also find that households that report more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419131
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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818504
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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Falco, Salvatore; B. Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300863
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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083854
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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886882
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Heterogeneity in migration responses to climate shocks : evidence from Madagascar
Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013271339
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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal : disentangling the interdependencies
Arslan, Aslıhan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
using a simultaneous estimation methodology. The results confirm the simultaneity of these decisions and show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608599
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Environmental disasters and migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346755
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Responses to temperature shocks : labor markets and migration decisions in El Salvador
Ibáñez, Ana María; Quigua, Juliana; Romero, Jimena; … - 2022
By 2017, one-quarter of people born in El Salvador were estimated to be living in the U.S. We show that extreme temperatures have negatively affected agricultural production and increased international migration from El Salvador. We find that labor markets act as a transmission mechanism of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496279
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From stocks to flows - evidence for the climate-migration-nexus
Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2021
Slow onset climate change has the potential to cause significant migration flows. Scientists have recently made considerable efforts to quantify these flows based on empirical methods. However, the literature on international migration has failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550033