Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252099 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9582
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that while the effect of recent adverse weather shocks is on average modest, the cumulative effect of a persistent exposure to droughts over several years leads to a significant increase in the probability to migrate. The results show that more frequent adverse shocks can have more significant and long-lasting consequences in challenging economic environments.
Subjects: 
climate shocks
rural-urban migration
economic development
JEL: 
O15
O13
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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