Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh

By G. Bryan, Shyamal K. Chowdhury, A. M. Mobarak. 2014

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India (2019, positive): “…the following year in less than half of the observations.23 This is consistent with households mi- 21 For the prevalence of temporary migration in other developing countries, refer to de Brauw and Harigaya (2007) (Vietnam), Macours and Vakis (2010) (Nicaragua), and Bryan et al. (2014) (Bangladesh).”
Seeing is Believing? Evidence from an Extension Network Experiment (2014, background): “An alternative explanation is that farmers may learn more from their own experience than from their peers (Foster and Rosenzweig, 1995; Bryan et al., 2014; Dupas, 2014).”
Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction (2017, neutral): “However, unobserved education quality differences are unlikely to drive the entire differential, given the presence of higher skilled jobs in cities and towns, and the high returns to rural-to-urban migration documented in other studies, e.g. Bryan et al. (2014).”
How Effective are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence (2017, background): “More striking evidence comes from Bryan, Chowdhury, and Mobarak (2014), who show that a small subsidy equal to the cost of a bus ticket spurred new seasonal migration in Bangladesh, increasing household consumption by 30–35 percent during the hun-gry season (they do not measure household income).”
Location, search costs and youth unemployment: experimental evidence from transport subsidies (2018, positive): “The model is similar in its mechanisms to buffer savings models of investment (Deaton, 1991; Bryan et al., 2014; Vereshchagina and Hopenhayn, 2009): in each period job seekers make the risky investment decision only when they have sufficient savings to do so because borrowing is not possible.”
Networks and Mis-allocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap (2015, background): “However, household income could directly determine migration due to credit constraints or risk-aversion (Bryan et al. 2014).”
Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia (2016, background): “Our study contributes to the literature on migration and the spatial (mis)allocation of labor in developing countries (Au and Henderson, 2006; Bryan et al., 2014; Gollin et al., 2014). Using survey data for 65 countries, Young (2013) argues that rural-urban wage gaps are explained by efficient geogr”
Cities in Developing Countries: Fueled by Rural–Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing (2015, background): “As a result, income risk is higher in the city than in the home region, but for a different reason than in Bryan et al. (2013). The resulting empirical prediction, supported by a theoretical model, is that higher-income rural households, which tend to subsidize rural households through the network r”
Clean and improved cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014, neutral): “PIC GHG CO2 multipliers Source CO 2 1 CH 4 25 UNDP 2000/Smith (25)x; Bond et al. 2013 (21x); IPCC 2007 (25x) CO 2 UNDP 2000 NMHC 11 UNDP 2000 = 11; Bond et al. 2013 (12x); IPCC 2007 (3.4x) N 2 0 285 UNDP 2000/Smith = 261; Bond et al. 2013 = 296; Solomon et al. 2007 = 298 PM 67 Computed - BC (EC) 460”
Perceived Self-Efficacy, Poverty, and Economic Development (2017, background): “…et al. (2014), the most interesting results are yet to come. www.annualreviews.org • Perceived Self-Efficacy, Poverty, and Economic Development 11.11 Bryan et al. (2014) investigate why more individuals do not migrate during the lean preharvest season in Bangladesh, when poverty and hunger are…”