“From fields to frontiers” - Cash crop price shocks and migration intentions in rural Africa
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Keywords
migration; cash crops; agriculture; economic and price shocks; sub-Saharan Africa.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
- Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
- E30 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2025-01-27 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2025-01-27 (Development)
- NEP-MIG-2025-01-27 (Economics of Human Migration)
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