Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal: Disentangling the interdependencies

Aslihan Arslan, Eva-Maria Egger, Erdgin Mane and Vanya Slavchevska

No wp-2021-131, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Climate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies investigate whether households send a migrant after experiencing weather shocks, but the literature lacks evidence on migration as an ex-ante measure. In this paper, we disentangle the direct effect of weather shocks on income from agriculture from the effect of changing weather patterns over a few years on migration as a diversification strategy.

Keywords: Climate change; Migration; Agriculture; Simultaneous equations; Nepal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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