Flood-Induced Migration and Armed Conflict

Ramesh Ghimire (), Susana Ferreira and Jeffrey Dorfman ()

No 124655, 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: We analyze the link between large and destructive floods and armed conflict in 117 countries between 1985 and 2009 employing flood-induced migration as a potential transmission channel. We use rainfall as an instrument for flood-induced migration and employ a two step procedure (Rivers and Vuong 1988) to estimate the model. We find that floods are likely to increase the risk of armed conflict through the channel of migration.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 2
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.124655

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