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migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …
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The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by … examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the … migration is crucial; developed countries need to manage the increasingly complicated issues of additional incoming migratory …
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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 …, we aim to uncover a factor which likely contributes to the mixed picture in the literature: how migration flow data is …
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This paper sheds light on the apparent paradox, wherein populations adversely affected by climatic conditions fail to migrate as much as would otherwise be expected. Drawing on Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice and Loyalty, we develop a simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a...
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Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and …
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This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the … migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a … disaster fund (Fonden). While lower than average precipitations increase undocumented migration, especially from the most …
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For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
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This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results … countries. Third, we exploit variation in the long-run change in average US climate from 1900 to 2019 and find that migration …. Finally, we project how climate change shapes the geography of US population growth by altering migration patterns, both …
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We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...
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