Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to temporarily out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22% of households to send a seasonal...