A meta-analysis of the literature on climate change and migration

IF 1.3 4区经济学 Q3 DEMOGRAPHY

Journal of Demographic Economics Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.1017/dem.2019.22

M. Beine, Lionel Jeusette

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Abstract

Abstract Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the methodological choices of these empirical studies in finding some particular results concerning the role of climatic factors as drivers of human mobility. We code 51 papers representative of the literature in terms of methodological approaches. This results in the coding of more than 85 variables capturing the methodology of the main dimensions of the analysis at the regression level. These dimensions include authors' reputation, type of mobility, measures of mobility, type of data, context of the study, econometric methods, and last but not least measures of the climatic factors. We look at the influence of these characteristics on the probability of finding any effect of climate change, a displacement effect, an increase in immobility, and evidence in favor of a direct vs. an indirect effect. Our results highlight the role of some important methodological choices, such as the frequency of the data on mobility, the level of development, the measures of human mobility and of the climatic factors as well as the econometric methodology.

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气候变化与移民文献的荟萃分析

最近对气候变化与移民的文献调查强调了实证研究结果和方法的重要多样性。在本文中，我们进行了一项荟萃分析，以调查这些实证研究的方法选择在发现有关气候因素作为人类流动驱动因素的作用的一些特定结果中的作用。我们编码了51篇在方法学方法方面具有代表性的文献。这导致超过85个变量的编码，在回归水平上捕获分析的主要维度的方法。这些维度包括作者的声誉、流动性类型、流动性措施、数据类型、研究背景、计量经济学方法，以及最后但并非最不重要的气候因素措施。我们研究了这些特征对发现气候变化的任何影响、位移效应、不动性增加的可能性的影响，以及支持直接影响与间接影响的证据。我们的研究结果强调了一些重要的方法选择的作用，如流动性数据的频率、发展水平、人类流动性和气候因素的测量以及计量经济学方法。

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Journal of Demographic Economics Multiple-

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2.30

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期刊介绍： Demographic variables such as fertility, mortality, migration and family structures notably respond to economic incentives and in turn affect the economic development of societies. Journal of Demographic Economics welcomes both empirical and theoretical papers on issues relevant to Demographic Economics with a preference for combining abstract economic or demographic models together with data to highlight major mechanisms. The journal was first published in 1929 as Bulletin de l’Institut des Sciences Economiques. It later became known as Louvain Economic Review, and continued till 2014 to publish under this title. In 2015, it moved to Cambridge University Press, increased its international character and changed its focus exclusively to demographic economics.