Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey

By Kathleen G. Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt, Stefan Dercon. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011

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Abstract This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using a thirteen-year panel survey, we find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to consumption growth. Although moving out of agriculture resulted in much higher growth than staying in agriculture, growth was always greater in any sector if the individual physically moved. As to why more people do not move given the high returns to geographical mobility, analysis finds evidence consistent with models in which exit barriers set by home communities prevent the migration of some categories of people.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Economic drivers of migration and climate change in LDCs (2011, background): “Tanzania (Beegle et al., 2011).”
Out-migration, Wealth Constraints, and the Quality of Local Amenities (2014, background): “, the location of the wealth distribution) and may interact with other amenities, we offer a structure that can reconcile the differences in findings between previous papers (e.g. Abramitzky et al., 2013; Beegle et al., 2011; McKenzie and Rapoport, 2007) with respect to the wealthmigration relation.”
Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh (2014, methodology): “2 Prior attempts use controls for observables (Adams 1998), selection correction methods (Barham and Boucher 1998), matching (Gibson and McKenzie 2010), instrumental variables (Brown and Leeves 2007; McKenzie and Rapoport 2007; Yang 2008; Macours and Vakis 2010), panel data techniques (Beegle et al.”
Land pressures, the evolution of farming systems, and development strategies in Africa: A synthesis (2014, background): “For example, Beegle et al.’s (2011) study of household mobility in Kagera, Tanzania, indicates that about half of surveyed individuals moved from their home village within a single decade (about half of which moved to other rural areas).”
The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2014, neutral): “Therefore, we control for such inter-household heterogeneity using initial household fixed effects (μh) (household head’s age, education, occupation, religion, land and non-land asset, highest level of female education) (Beegle et al., 2011).”
Poverty reduction during the rural-urban transformation - The role of the missing middle (2013, positive): “As highlighted by Beegle, De Weerdt, and Dercon (2012), both occupational and spatial mobility matter for poverty reduction.”
Winners and Losers among a Refugee-Hosting Population (2014, background): “Extending the sample to households that have moved from their original communities seem particularly important Kagera, where welfare assessments have been shown to vary greatly depending on the inclusion of the migrants (Beegle et al., 2010).”