The Effect of Rainfall on Migration from Mexico to the United States

Autor:	Geronimo Barrios Puente, Francisco Perez, Robert J. Gitter
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	050402 sociology 05 social sciences Percentage point Geography 0504 sociology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Work (electrical) Remote sensing (archaeology) Satellite data 0502 economics and business Satellite imagery Physical geography 050207 economics Demography
Zdroj:	International Migration Review. 50:890-909
ISSN:	1747-7379 0197-9183
DOI:	10.1111/imre.12116
Popis:	There has been very little work on the impact of rainfall on migration from Mexico or even elsewhere. We use satellite data from NASA to examine the effect of the lagged level of rainfall relative to an area's historical average, on migration from small Mexican communities to the United States. Controlling for the level of education, proportion married, and historic migration levels, we find higher levels of rainfall significantly reduce Mexican migration to the United States and a 20 percentage point higher-than-normal level of rainfall leads to a predicted 10.3 percent decrease in migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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