Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290054 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01268
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
By 2017, one-quarter of people born in El Salvador were estimated to be living in the U.S. We show that extreme temperatures have negatively affected agricultural production and increased international migration from El Salvador. We find that labor markets act as a transmission mechanism of the negative effects of weather shocks on agricultural workers, who react by migrating internationally or reallocating within local labor markets. However, these responses differ by landownership status and access to risk-coping mechanisms. Our results suggest that, despite the current anti-immigrant political climate, there should be a global responsibility relative to the consequences of climate change.
Subjects: 
Migration
Temperature Shocks
El Salvador
JEL: 
Q54
O15
J43
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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