Impacts of rainfall shocks on out-migration are moderated more by per capita income than by agricultural output in Turkiye

Nathan Delacrétaz, Bruno Lanz, Amir Delju, Etienne Piguet and Martine Rebetez

No 21-06, IRENE Working Papers from IRENE Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: Rural populations are particularly exposed to increasing weather variability, notably because of agriculture. In this paper, we exploit longitudinal data for Turkish provinces from 2008 to 2018 together with precipitation records over more than 30 years to quantify how variability in a standardized precipitation index (SPI) affects out-migration as an adaptation mechanism. Doing so, we document the role of three potential causal channels: per capita income, agricultural output, and local conflicts. Our results show that negative SPI shocks (droughts) are associated with higher out-migration in rural provinces. A mediated-moderator approach further suggests that changes in per capita income account for more than one quarter of the direct effect of droughts on out-migration, whereas agricultural output is only relevant for provinces in the upper quartile of crop production. Finally, we find evidence that local conflict fatalities increase with drought and trigger out-migration, although this channel is distinct from the direct effect of SPI shocks on out-migration.

Keywords: out-migration; climate change; rainfall; urbanization; per capita income; agriculture; conflicts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O15 Q54 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages.
Date: 2021-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-ara, nep-isf, nep-mig and nep-ure
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