This study investigates the effects of rural–urban migration on economic development in Thailand. It draws upon a panel database of 2,000 rural households collected from 2008 to 2010 in three provinces from Northeast Thailand and a survey of 650 migrants in the Greater Bangkok area conducted...

Shocks, rainfall variability, geographic capital, assets, welfare dynamics, poverty traps, migration, remittances, Thailand, Vietnam. - Schocks, Niederschlagsvariabilität, geographisches Kapital, Wohlfahrtsdynamik, Vermögenswert, Armutsfallen, Rücküberweisungen

This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to quantify the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. We exploit spatial variation in...