@article{Zaveri:338482,
      recid = {338482},
      author = {Zaveri, Esha D. and Wrenn, Douglas H. and Fisher-Vanden,  Karen},
      title = {The impact of water access on short-term migration in  rural India},
      journal = {Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2020-04-01},
      number = {428-2023-1623},
      month = {Apr},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {Migration is an important risk-reduction strategy for  households in developing countries. In this paper, we  examine the impact of rainfall variability and irrigation  availability on short-term migration decisions in India.  Our results show that both rainfall shocks and the  availability of irrigation impact the decisions of  households to dispatch migrants. For irrigation, we find  that migration responds to costs and that deep fossil-water  wells, which provide a constant source of water, eliminate  any benefit of short-term migration. This suggests that  regions with access to more secure and stable sources of  water are less likely to rely on migration as an  income-smoothing mechanism, at least in the short run.  Whether this holds in the long run will depend on the  continued stability and availability of irrigation water.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/338482},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.338482},
}