Climatic Change and Rural-Urban Migration: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

By Salavador Barrios, Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration (2015, unknown): “We extend Barrios et al. (2006)’s work by looking at the role of our climatic variables for the complete sample of countries over the full investigation period.”
Viewpoint: From Cities to Productivity and Growth in Developing Countries (2008, unknown): “Barrios, Bertinelli, and Strobl (2006) show that, in sub-Saharan Africa, there is a direct link between climate, which directly affects living standards in rural areas, and urban growth.”
Climate Change and Labour Allocation in Rural Mexico: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather (2018, unknown): “However, the relationship between migration and environmental change is complex; empirical evidence suggests that environmental shocks may both induce and constrain migration (Barrios et al. 2006, Bazzi 2012, Gray and Muller 2012, Halliday 2008, Munshi 2003). This is because environmentally-induced ”
The Impact of Weather Anomalies on Migration in sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “Moreover, Barrios et al. (2006) stress that rainfall in sub-Saharan Africa remained constant during the first part of the 20th century until the 1950s, peaking in the late 1950s and being on a cleardownward trend since that peak.”
Climate variability and international migration: an empirical analysis (2015, unknown): “Barrios et al. (2006) investigate the role of climate change on rural–urban migration in a panel of 78 countries over the period 1960–1990.”
The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: What are the Channels of Impact? (2018, unknown): “12 See, among others, Barrios, Bazoumana, and Strobl (2008); Barrios, Bertinelli, and Strobl (2006, 2010); Schlenker and Lobell (2010); Feng, Krueger, and Oppenheimer (2010); Lobell, Schlenker, and Costa-Roberts (2011); and Lanzafame (2014) for evidence from emerging market and developing economies…”
Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers (2014, background): “Others have paid attention on other crucial impacts of climatic variables such as conflicts (Hsiang, Meng and Cane, 2011), education, health, migration (Barrios et al., 2006) and social norms (Miguel, 2005).”
Climate change and poverty in Africa (2009, background): “In general, there has been a decline in rainfall on the African continent since the 1960s (Barrios et al. 2006).”
Malthus living in a slum: Urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth (2017, unknown): “…a relevant possibility today for many poor countries with large rural populations and largely dependent on low-productivity agriculture and mineral exports (Weil and Wilde 2009). effects of climate change on economic performance (Miguel et al. 2004; Barrios et al. 2006; Brückner and Ciccone 2011).”
Urbanization with and without industrialization (2015, background): “Rural poverty due to natural disasters can cause rural migrants to flock to cities (Barrios et al. 2006; Henderson et al. 2013a).”
Weather Shocks, Agricultural Production and Migration: Evidence from Tanzania (2016, background): “On the other hand, Barrios, Bertinelli, and Strobl (2006) and Marchiori, Maystadt, and Schumacher (2012) propose a model where environmental factors lead to urban migration.”
A meta-analysis of the literature on climate change and migration (2021, background): “For instance, the 4 used surveys overlook the paper of Barrios et al. (2006) in spite of the fact that it is one of the seminal papers of the literature and is highly quoted (426 Google Scholar citations in January 2019). (9)The first three ones span more the economic literature while Piguet et al. ”
Economic drivers of migration and climate change in LDCs (2011, methodology): “In contrast to Barrios et al. (2010), Dell et al.”