%0 Report
        %A Falco, Salvatore Di
%A Kis, Anna B.
%A Viarengo, Martina
        %T Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15084
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15084
        %X We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that while the effect of recent adverse weather shocks is on average modest, the cumulative effect of a persistent exposure to droughts over several years leads to a significant increase in the probability to migrate. The results show that more frequent adverse shocks can have more significant and long-lasting consequences in challenging economic environments.
        %K climate shocks
%K rural-urban migration
%K economic development