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To Go or not to Go: Migration Alleviates Climate Damages even for Those Who Stay Behind

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  • Soheil Shayegh

    (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM))

  • Greg P. Casey

    (Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University)

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We examine the effect of climate change on fertility rates and human capital accumulation in developing countries, focusing on the instrumental role of migration. In particular, we investigate how climate-induced migration in developing countries will affect those who do not migrate. Holding all else constant, climate shocks raise the return to acquiring skills, because skilled individuals compared to unskilled ones have greater opportunity to migrate after the shock. In response to this change in incentives, parents choose to invest more in education and have less children, a process known as the ‘quantity-quality’ trade-off. These effects partially offset the damages of climate change, even for those who do not migrate.

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  • Soheil Shayegh & Greg P. Casey, 2017. "To Go or not to Go: Migration Alleviates Climate Damages even for Those Who Stay Behind," Working Papers 2017.55, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    • Handle: RePEc:fem:femwpa:2017.55
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    Cited by:

    1. Tanvir Pavel & Syed Hasan & Nafisa Halim & Pallab Mozumder, 2018. "Natural Hazards and Internal Migration: The Role of Transient versus Permanent Shocks," Working Papers 1806, Florida International University, Department of Economics.
    2. Olga Podkorytova & Tatyana Chigvintseva, 2010. "Oil Price Influence on Russian Macroeconomic Indicators," EUSP Department of Economics Working Paper Series Ec-04/10, European University at St. Petersburg, Department of Economics, revised 26 Oct 2010.

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    Keywords

    Migration; Climate Change; Fertility; Population; Wage; Quantity-quality Tradeoff;
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    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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