Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249349 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1040
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on migration ows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2012 to investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration response to weather shocks. We find that Fonden decreases migration in response to heavy rainfall, hurricanes and droughts. Increases in PROCAMPO amounts paid to small producers are found to play a more ambiguous role on the migration response to shocks. Changes in the distribution of PROCAMPO favoring more vulnerable producers in the non irrigated ejido sector however seem to mitigate the impact of droughts on migration.
Subjects: 
International migration
Weather shocks
Public policies
Weather variability
Natural disasters
Mexico-U.S. migration
Inequality
JEL: 
F22
Q54
Q18
O15
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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