conflict, and argue that the findings are consistent with distress migration. Despite an increase in the willingness to migrate … following locust outbreaks, very few people may actually be able to migrate as they lack the necessary resources. As migration …

Empirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those … migration on crime with longitudinal data from Brazilian microregiões. Using local labour demand shocks in the manufacturing … sector as an instrument for migratory flows, I find that a 10 per cent increase in the in-migration rate translates into a 6 …

Traditional economic models predict rural to urban migration during the structural transformation of an economy. In … middle-income countries, it is less clear which direction of migration to expect. In this paper I show that in Brazil as many …

variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies … investigate whether households send a migrant after experiencing weather shocks, but the literature lacks evidence on migration as … effect of changing weather patterns over a few years on migration as a diversification strategy. Using a novel household …