4:00-5:30
pm on Wednesday, Oct 31st, 2012
608
Academic Hall, CUFE
Abstract
Using
panel datasets of Indonesia, I examine how natural disasters affect household
migration. Specifically, the study analyzes the effects of earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions and floods on household tendency to migrate. Contrary to conventional
wisdom, I find that all three kinds of disasters significantly reduce migration
rates. Nevertheless, the channels of impact are quite different. Earthquakes
reduce earnings and non-business assets, each of which tends to reduce migration
rates. Volcanic eruptions on the other hand raise the value of farmland, which,
in turn, induce households to stay. Floods have no significant impacts on
household assets or earnings, which can be the results from attenuation bias due
to measurement errors .
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