Migration and Environment

Millock, Katrin

doi:10.1146/annurev-resource-100814-125031

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“…A fourth concern relates to temperature-induced migration and unobserved farmer ability. Extensive literature has addressed how climate change and environmental stressors affect migration (Bohra-Mishra et al, 2014;Millock, 2015;Koubi et al, 2016;Dallmann and Millock, 2017). A relevant study is Bohra- Mishra et al (2014), which looks at temperature-induced migration and finds that temperatures over 25 C can lead to outmigration.…”

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Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Taraz

2018

World Development

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Projections suggest that the damages from climate change will be substantial for developing countries. Understanding the ability of households in these countries to adapt to climate change is critical in order to determine the magnitude of the potential damages. In this paper, I investigate the ability of farmers in India to adapt to higher temperatures. I use a methodology that exploits short-term weather fluctuations as well as spatial variation in long-run climate. Specifically, I estimate how damaging high temperatures are for districts that experience high temperatures more or less frequently. I find that the losses from high temperatures are lower in heat-prone districts, a result that is consistent with adaptation. However, while adaptation appears to be modestly effective for moderate levels of heat, my results suggest that adaptation to extreme heat is much more difficult. Extremely high temperatures do grave damage to crops, even in places that experience these temperature extremes regularly. The persistence of negative impacts of high temperatures, even in areas that experience high temperatures frequently, underscores the need for development policies that emphasize risk mitigation and explicitly account for climate-change-related risks.JEL Classification: O1, O3, Q1, Q5

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Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Taraz

2018

World Development

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“…This section therefore provides a selective literature review of recent papers. Excellent overarching and comprehensive surveys are provided by Millock (2015) and Belermann and Steinhardt (2016).…”

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Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration: Redux

Beine

Parsons

2017

CESifo Economic Studies

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In this paper, we revisit the issue of environmental change as a potential determinant of international migration, thereby providing an extension of our earlier paper. In contrast to Beine and Parsons (2015) and in light of recent empirical contributions, we adopt an alternative identification strategy in which we only include fixed effects together with our measures of climatic change in order to quantify the net partial effect of climatic change on bilateral migration. Again drawing on panel data from 1960-2000, we further exploit the dyadic dimension of our data to highlight the importance of neighbouring countries and former colonial powers in determining the direction of climate-induced emigration. We additionally highlight the importance of how differences in modelling climate change can lead to differing results. Our baseline results suggest that climatic change affects individuals' credit constraints more than their desire to move. Our key findings are that natural disasters deter emigration from all origin countries but importantly spur emigration to neighbouring countries while for middle income origins, natural disasters while deterring migration, foster emigration to former colonial powers.

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“…This paper contributes to a growing body of literature that studies adaptive development (Agrawal and Lemos 2015;Castells-Quintana et al 2018;Lemos et al 2013) and environmental migration (Millock 2015). While economic models have been developed to study migration, only recently have economists started to estimate the interactions between environmental change and migration.…”

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The impact of water access on short‐term migration in rural India

Zaveri

Wrenn

Fisher‐Vanden

2020

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Migration is an important risk‐reduction strategy for households in developing countries. In this paper, we examine the impact of rainfall variability and irrigation availability on short‐term migration decisions in India. Our results show that both rainfall shocks and the availability of irrigation impact the decisions of households to dispatch migrants. For irrigation, we find that migration responds to costs and that deep fossil‐water wells, which provide a constant source of water, eliminate any benefit of short‐term migration. This suggests that regions with access to more secure and stable sources of water are less likely to rely on migration as an income‐smoothing mechanism, at least in the short run. Whether this holds in the long run will depend on the continued stability and availability of irrigation water.

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Migration and Environment

Cited by 79 publications

References 102 publications

Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration: Redux

The impact of water access on short‐term migration in rural India

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