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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 …

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The Impact of Early Childbearing on Schooling and Cognitive Skills among Young Women in Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015

pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women …

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Childhood Determinants of Internal Youth Migration in Senegal

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2020

BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVES: This paper analyzes the socioeconomic...

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The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh

Hanifi, S.M. Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; Quisumbing, … - 2021

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 – 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate...

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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...

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Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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Demographic Transitions across Time and Space

Delventhal, Matthew J.; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - 2022

The demographic transition –the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime– is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and...

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World War II, the Baby Boom and Employment: County Level Evidence

Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021

This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United States. We rely on the number of casualties at the county-level and use a difference-in-differences strategy. While most counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following...

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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...

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The Competitive Earning Incentive for Sons: Evidence from Migration in China

Li, Wenchao; Yi, Junjian - 2015

This paper first finds a clear pattern of child gender difference in family migration in China. Specifically, our estimates show that on average, the first child being a son increases the father's migration probability by 25.2 percent. We hypothesize that the family's competitive earning...

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