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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal : disentangling the interdependencies
Arslan, Aslıhan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
Climate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies investigate whether households send a migrant after...
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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024
Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … Madagascar and elsewhere. By comparing Madagascar with its peers, the paper aims to identify policies and strategies that can … foster economic and institutional diversification and to suggest pathways for Madagascar to promote the welfare of its people …
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Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa
Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta; Reichert, … - 2021
Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, this study investigates the extent to which soil moisture anomalies drive international migration decisions within the region...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607104
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Climate change and migration : the case of Africa
Conte, Bruno - 2022
This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural yields on the geography of the economy. I combine the...
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Climate anomalies and international migration : a disaggregated analysis for West Africa
Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Milusheva, Sveta; Reichert, … - 2021 - This version: February 2021
West Africa is vulnerable to negative impacts of climate change and a potential channel of adjustment is migration. Using novel geo-referenced and high-frequency data, we investigate the extent to which soil moisture anomalies have an impact on international migration within the region and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341952
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Plague, war, and exodus? : the effects of desert locust swarms on migration intentions in Yemen
Ghorpade, Yashodhan - 2024
-dependent households, plausibly due to the income shock experienced by them as a result of locust exposure. I rule out alternate …
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Migration and environment
Millock, Katrin - In: Annual review of resource economics 7 (2015), pp. 35-60
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In utero shocks and health at birth : the distorting effect of fetal losses
Hajdu, Tamás - 2023
Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study outlines a conceptual framework and shows that the results of the standard empirical approach are biased if (i) the exposure changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454627
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In utero shocks and health at birth : the distorting effect of fetal losses
Hajdu, Tamás - 2023
Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study outlines a conceptual framework and shows that the results of the standard empirical approach are biased if (i) the exposure changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306886
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The impact of changing climate on children's nutritional status in Bangladesh
Hanifi, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; … - 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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