A5060602657- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
International Food Policy Research Institute
2015-2024
Arizona State University
2013-2024
McMaster University
2013-2024
Clemson University
2024
ORCID
2021
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2020
University of Oxford
2019
Impact Technology Development (United States)
2014-2018
Impact
2014-2018
World Bank
2018
The consequences of environmental change for human migration have gained increasing attention in the context climate and recent large-scale natural disasters, but as yet relatively few quantitative studies addressed this issue. We investigate climate-related disasters long-term population mobility rural Bangladesh, a region particularly vulnerable to change, using longitudinal survey data from 1,700 households spanning 15-y period. Multivariate event history models are used estimate effects...
Abstract The exposure of populations to sea-level rise (SLR) is a leading indicator assessing the impact future climate change on coastal regions. SLR exposes spectrum impacts with broad spatial and temporal heterogeneity, but assessments often narrowly define zone flooding. Here we show how choice results in differential estimates across space time. Further, apply spatio-temporal flood-modeling approach that integrates these zones assess annual probability population exposure. We our model...
We investigate the extent that Nigerian households engage in internal migration to ensure against ex ante and post agricultural risk due weather‐related variability shocks. use data on patterns of individuals over a twenty‐year period temperature degree days proxy risk. find suggestive evidence household response by sending males migrate. Robust findings show migrate As global climate change increases risk, these results suggest increased could result as mitigate strain limited resources cities.
Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers extension workers, and agents contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other in their communities. Such a modality may fail address informational inefficiencies accountability issues. We run field experiment measure the impact of augmenting CF model with direct training on diffusion new technology. All villages have access same network. In treatment...
Africa is likely to experience warming and increased climate variability by the late 21st century. Climate extremes have been linked adverse economic outcomes. Hence, adaptation a key component of United Nations Framework Convention on Change agreements development assistance. Effective policy requires an understanding how temperature rainfall affect migration patterns. Yet, individuals in developing countries manage variation poorly understood, especially Africa. Combining high-resolution...
Abstract How does the amount of land that youth expect to inherit affect their migration and employment decisions? We explore this question in context rural Ethiopia using a 2014 cross‐sectional dataset indicating whether or not household members from previous 2010 survey had migrated by 2014, which sector they worked 2014. estimate fixed effects model exploit exogenous variation timing redistributions overcome endogenous decisions about how much bequeath descendants. find larger expected...
Abstract In the wake of Venezuelan crisis, Colombian migrants are returning to their place birth. Since 2016, however, there has been a spike immigration Colombia attributable inflows Venezuelan-born. Using high-frequency administrative data, we estimate impacts recent labour supply shock–driven by economic predicament in Venezuela–on and poverty outcomes native Colombians. We employ an instrumental variables approach account for selection immigrants into locations with more or less...
To date, projections of human migration induced by sea-level change (SLC) largely suggest large-scale displacement away from vulnerable coastlines. However, results our model Bangladesh counterintuitively that people will continue to migrate toward the coastline irrespective flooding amplified future SLC under all emissions scenarios until end this century. We developed an empirically calibrated agent-based household decision-making captures multi-faceted push, pull and mooring influences on...
Migration is considered a pathway out of poverty for many rural households in developing countries. National policies can discourage from exploiting external employment opportunities through the distortion capital markets. In this paper, we study whether specific distortion, restrictions on land transferability, affects migration Ethiopia. We find that when broadly define migration, with better rights are slightly less likely to send migrants. However, finding does not hold restricting focus...
Rainfall measures may be imperfect proxies for floods, given factors such as upstream water balance, proximity to rivers, and topography. We check the robustness of flooding-migration relationships by combining nationally-representative survey data with flooding derived from weather stations, gridded products, remote sensing tools. Linear probability models reveal that extreme is negatively associated out-migration. Rainfall-based produce results qualitatively similar those using...
Abstract The recent adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees formally recognizes not only importance supporting nearly 26 million people who have sought asylum from conflict and persecution but also easing pressures receiving areas host countries. However, few countries may enforce out concern over economic or environmental repercussions hosting refugees. We examine whether narratives refugee-driven landscape change are empirically generalizable to continental Africa, which fosters 34% all...
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted social distancing, workplace closures, and restrictions on mobility trade that had cascading effects economic activity, food prices, employment in low- middle-income countries. Using longitudinal data from Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria covering a period October 2020 to April 2021, the paper assesses whether knowledge of person infected with is associated insecurity, job loss business coping strategies smooth consumption. likelihood households experience insecurity...
Abstract Climate shocks have well-documented impacts on the short-term welfare of rural households in developing countries. We investigate impact droughts Brazilian labour markets. find long-term wage losses beyond immediate drought, with affected workers taking five years to catch up their peers. Findings are robust model specification. The severity varies dependence agricultural income, supporting notion diversifying portfolio strategies areas reduce climate-related income risk....
Abstract Natural disasters devastate economies as they impede capital accumulation. The resilience of labour markets is crucial for the poor who rely on to reduce risk. We evaluate how 1998 'flood century' affected wages in Bangladesh. find short-term declines agricultural and non-agricultural wages. Agricultural workers moved towards employment cope benefitted through a lower percentage reduction Endowed with human capital, salaried were unable mitigate income Extending eligibility credit...