@article{Cattaneo:202117,
      recid = {202117},
      author = {Cattaneo, Cristina and Massetti, Emanuele},
      title = {Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa},
      address = {2015-04-20},
      number = {824-2016-54969},
      series = {CCSD},
      pages = {40},
      month = {Apr},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that  households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and  Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation  portfolio of households in developing countries, it is  reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to  future climate change. It is important to stress that we  are interested in long-term climatic conditions rather than  in short-term weather fluctuations. The data to test these  predictions are drawn from two different household surveys:  the Nigeria General Household Survey and the Ghana Living  Standard Survey. We find a hill-shaped relationship between  temperature in the dry sea son and the propensity to  migrate in households that operate farms. We also find a  significant hill-shaped relationship between precipitations  in the wet seasons and the propensity to migrate in farm  households. Climate has instead no significant impact on  the propensity to migrate in non-farm households. Climate  change scenarios generated by General Circulation model  reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in  Ghana and in Nigeria.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/202117},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.202117},
}