Hurricane strikes and local migration in US coastal counties

Bazoumana Ouattara and Eric Strobl ()

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 1, 17-20

Abstract: We examine the effects of hurricane shocks on key migration variables in US coastal counties. Results show that hurricane strikes increase the outward migration rate and that these migrants were somewhat wealthier, but that there was no impact on inward migration.

Keywords: Natural disasters; Migration; Panel data; VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 O15 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.03.025

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