Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024
This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and establishes several new results …. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and … historical flows of German, Norwegian, and domestic migrants in the US and document that climate sorting also holds within …
