经济与社会研究院SEMINAR第12期

题目：Agricultural income shocks drive drought induced migration from Mexico to the US

报告人：李珊

时间：2016年10月12日下午13:30-15:00

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106B

主办方：暨南大学经济与社会研究院

报告人简介：

Shan Li is an assistant professor in the China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics. She got her PhD degree from the George Washington University in 2016. Her research interests include international migration, human capital, and technology diffusion.

摘要：

There is now substantial empirical evidence that climatic variability increases migration in both developing and developed countries, but less is known about the mechanism. In this paper, we show that drought induced migration from Mexico to the U.S. is mediated by agricultural income shocks. We show that migration rates increase in drought years, but only in those parts of Mexico in which agriculture is sensitive to drought, and only by farmers whose lands are unirrigated and do not have non-agricultural income sources.

李珊