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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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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022

We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...

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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022

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Heterogeneity in migration responses to climate shocks : evidence from Madagascar

Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca; … - 2021

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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

using a simultaneous estimation methodology. The results confirm the simultaneity of these decisions and show that …

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Environmental disasters and migration

Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015

This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...

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Responses to temperature shocks : labor markets and migration decisions in El Salvador

Ibáñez, Ana María; Quigua, Juliana; Romero, Jimena; … - 2022

By 2017, one-quarter of people born in El Salvador were estimated to be living in the U.S. We show that extreme temperatures have negatively affected agricultural production and increased international migration from El Salvador. We find that labor markets act as a transmission mechanism of the...

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From stocks to flows - evidence for the climate-migration-nexus

Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik; Steinhardt, Max … - 2021

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 failed to come to a clear conclusion as many studies...

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Climatic factors as determinants of international migration

Beine, Michel; Parsons, Christopher A. - 2012 - This version: February 2012

We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset...

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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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