The Role of Risk Perception in Child Mobility Decisions in West Africa, Empirical Evidence From Benin

Kielland, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.01.008

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“…Boamah et al 2015 ; Enete et al 2016 ; Evadzi et al 2018 ), others explicitly indicated them as providing labour, mental, financial, or material support, borrowing money, and food or shelter to affected family members or friends (e.g. Adelekan and Fregene 2015 ; Kielland 2016 ; Osman et al 2016 ; Frick-Trzebitzky 2017 ; Ajaero et al 2018 ). Thus, support from social networks can also aid in explaining the strong prevalence of temporary relocation after the onset of the flood events in case studies (Fig.…”

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When does risk become residual? A systematic review of research on flood risk management in West Africa

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Flood events in West Africa have devastating impacts on the lives of people. Additionally, developments such as climate change, settlement expansion into flood-prone areas, and modification of rivers are expected to increase flood risk in the future. Policy documents have issued calls for conducting local risk assessments and understanding disaster risk in diverse aspects, leading to an increase in such research. Similarly, in a shift from flood protection to flood risk management, the consideration of various dimensions of flood risk, the necessity of addressing flood risk through an integrated strategy containing structural and non-structural measures, and the presence of residual risk are critical perspectives raised. However, the notion of “residual risk” remains yet to be taken up in flood risk management-related academic literature. This systematic review seeks to approach the notion of residual risk by reviewing information on flood impacts, common measures, and recommendations in academic literature. The review reveals various dimensions of impacts from residual flood risk aside from material damage, in particular, health impacts and economic losses. Infrastructural measures were a dominant category of measures before and after flood events and in recommendations, despite their shortcomings. Also, spatial planning interventions, a more participatory and inclusive governance approach, including local knowledge, sensitisation, and early warning systems, were deemed critical. In the absence of widespread access to insurance schemes, support from social networks after flood events emerged as the most frequent measure. This finding calls for in-depth assessments of those networks and research on potential complementary formal risk transfer mechanisms.

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“…Fourth and relatedly, households may respond to climate-induced changes in resource constraints by reallocating their investments (broadly defined) in children. For example, changes in household resources can be expected to affect a number of important decisions, including if, when, and where to enroll (or unenroll) children in school, seek health care for them, retain them in the household (e.g., versus out-fostering), and invest in their marriage (Akresh 2009;Beegle, Dehejia, and Gatti 2006;Carrico et al 2020;Eloundou-Enyegue and Stokes 2002;Kielland 2016;Jennings and Gray 2017;Jensen 2000). Climate-induced changes in household resource allocation may affect the likelihood of migration both immediately after an exposure and over longer periods of time.…”

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The Childhood Origins of Climate‐Induced Mobility and Immobility

Thiede¹,

Randell²,

Gray³

2022

Population & Development Rev

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The literature on climate exposures and human migration has focused largely on assessing short-term responses to temperature and precipitation shocks. In this paper, we suggest that this common coping strategies model can be extended to account for mechanisms that link environmental conditions to migration behavior over longer periods of time. We argue that early-life climate exposures may affect the likelihood of migration from childhood through early adulthood by influencing parental migration, community migration networks, human capital development, and decisions about household resource allocation, all of which are correlates of geographic mobility. After developing this conceptual framework, we evaluate the corresponding hypotheses using a big data approach, analyzing 20 million individual georeferenced records from 81 censuses implemented across 31 countries in tropical Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. For each world region, we estimate regression models that predict lifetime migration (a change in residence between birth and ages 30-39) as a function of temperature and precipitation anomalies in early life, defined as the year prior to birth to age four. Results suggest that early-life climate is systematically associated with changes in the probability of lifetime migration in most regions of the tropics, with the largest effects observed in sub-Saharan Africa. In East and Southern Africa, the effects of temperature shocks vary by sex and educational attainment and in a manner that suggests women and those of lower socioeconomic status are most vulnerable. Finally, we compare our main results with models using alternative measures of climate exposures. This comparison suggests climate exposures during the prenatal period and first few years of life are particularly (but not exclusively) salient for lifetime migration, which is most consistent with the hypothesized human capital mechanism.

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“…The Google mobility data on stay-at-home activities reveals the level of public social distancing behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., Wang and Yamamoto, 2020;Noland, 2021;Yilmazkuday, 2021). Prior studies have suggested that an individual's mobility information reflects the degree to which his or her mobility is restricted during the pandemic; in our case, it captures individuals' risk perception during the epidemic (e.g., Kielland, 2016;Hsiehchen et al, 2020;Lawal and Nwegbu, 2020). After merging the mobility data with the demographic and COVID crisis data based on Federal Information Processing Standards, our final sample contains 1,776 counties.…”

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Please Let Science Talk: Presidential Sentiment and the Public’s Risk Perception in the Era of COVID-19

Guo

Yang

Zeng

et al. 2021

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We examine whether and to what extent the presidential COVID-19 sentiment (PCS), constructed based on the former President Trump’s tweets, has influenced the public’s risk perception regarding COVID-19. We find that during the COVID-19 pandemic, PCS is negatively associated with social distancing behaviour in the Republican counties but is positively associated with social distancing behaviour in the Democratic counties. Our finding supports the view that individuals’ risk perception is influenced by the information they receive from politicians through social media, with the impact exhibiting as variations with respect to the individuals’ position on the political spectrum.

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The Role of Risk Perception in Child Mobility Decisions in West Africa, Empirical Evidence From Benin

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

When does risk become residual? A systematic review of research on flood risk management in West Africa

When does risk become residual? A systematic review of research on flood risk management in West Africa

The Childhood Origins of Climate‐Induced Mobility and Immobility

Please Let Science Talk: Presidential Sentiment and the Public’s Risk Perception in the Era of COVID-19

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