Drought and Population Mobility in Rural Ethiopia
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Gray, Clark
- Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Mueller, Valerie
- Other Affiliation: International Food Policy Research Institute
- Abstract
- Significant attention has focused on the possibility that climate change will displace large populations in the developing world, but few multivariate studies have investigated climate-induced migration. We use event history methods and a unique longitudinal dataset from the rural Ethiopian highlands to investigate the effects of drought on population mobility over a ten-year period. The results indicate that men’s labor migration increases with drought and that land-poor households are most vulnerable. However, marriage-related moves by women also decrease with drought. These findings suggest a hybrid narrative of environmentally-induced migration that recognizes multiple dimensions of adaptation to environmental change.
- Date of publication
- 2012
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- Identifier
- PMCID: PMC3328858
- Onescience id: 0a1e157a23d256b156e664d35a145a78b1739430
- PMID: 22523447
- Publisher DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.05.023
- Resource type
- Article
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- In Copyright
- Journal title
- World Development
- Journal volume
- 40
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 134
- Page end
- 145
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0305-750X
- 1873-5991
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