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Impacts of transient and permanent environmental shocks on internal migration

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  • Tanvir Pavel
  • Syed Hasan
  • Nafisa Halim
  • Pallab Mozumder

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We examined whether floods and cyclones, the shocks that are transient in nature, affect interregional migration differently compared to riverbank erosion that causes loss of lands and thus generates permanent shocks. We tracked Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2000 participants in nine coastal districts of Bangladesh and collected further information in 2015. Our analyses suggest that both transient and permanent shocks induce households to migrate, but the effect is higher for the latter category. Using a difference-in-differences setting, we find that migrants’ income and expenditure increase relative to their counterparts, indicating that facilitating migration may improve welfare in disaster-prone countries.

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  • Tanvir Pavel & Syed Hasan & Nafisa Halim & Pallab Mozumder, 2023. "Impacts of transient and permanent environmental shocks on internal migration," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(4), pages 333-356, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:55:y:2023:i:4:p:333-356
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2087859
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