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The seminar will be held via MS Teams on Feburary 7th from 3pm - 4:15pm.
Join Dr Marco Alfano, Lecturer in Economics at Lancaster University. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London.
Dr Alfano’s research fields are development economics, economics of conflict, economics of religion, economics of migration and applied micro econometrics.
Abstract:
“This paper shows that accounting for in-place adaptation strategies to weather shocks when investigating climate migration drastically changes policy implications. After a detailed reduced-form causal analysis, we estimate a model of joint migration, occupation, and livestock choices by households in Kenya accounting for equilibrium adjustments in local wages. We find that random unconditional cash transfers and better infrastructure both weaken temperature’s effect on migration. Crucially, in areas with better infrastructure, heat shocks also intensify employment transitions into less climate sensitive (non-agricultural) occupations and changes in livestock ownership. We show that among a range of realistic policies, infrastructure is most efficient in curbing the effect of temperature shocks on migration. Therefore, compared to ours, a model that considers migration as the only coping strategy under-estimates the mitigating impact of infrastructure investment on the effect of heat on migration by 37%.”
- Speaker
- Dr Marco Alfano,
- Hosted by
- University of Aberdeen
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