Is Internal Migration A Way to Cope With Climate Change? Evidence From Egypt

Adel Ben Youssef, Mohamed Arouri and Cuong Nguyen

No 1099, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

Abstract: In this study, we examine the effect of extreme weather events on migration among governorates in Egypt using migration gravity models and data from the 1996 and 2006 Population and Housing Census. We find that low or high temperature and precipitation does not affect the migration of people. Instead, people are considering the weather in destination areas to decide where they should migrate. The number of months with temperature below the five percentiles the distribution of monthly temperature of destination governorates strongly increases in-migration. An additional month with low temperature increases the number of in-migrants by 9.98 percent. For the elderly, they also avoid a governorate with more months of high temperatures. One additional month with temperature above the 95 percentile reduces in the destination governorates the number of old migrants by 8.15 percent.

Pages: 28
Date: 2017-25-05, Revised 2017
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