Climate Variability and Internal Migration: A Test on Indian Inter-State Migration

Ingrid Dallmann () and Katrin Millock ()

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Abstract: Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological indicators of climate variability, based on the standardized precipitation index. [CES Working Papers].

Keywords: migration; data; Indian census; climate data; climate variability; push factor; standardized precipitation index; Internal Migration; Inter-State Migration; Indian; flood events; female; environment; economy; drought; economic drivers; costs; weather; households; urbanization; farmlands; soil erosion; income; cross-section data; net vegetation; gravity-type models; India; economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09
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