TY  - UNPD
A1  - Šedová, Barbora
A1  - Čizmaziová, Lucia
A1  - Cook, Athene
T1  - A meta-analysis of climate migration literature
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - The large literature that aims to find evidence of climate migration delivers mixed findings. This meta-regression analysis i) summarizes direct links between adverse climatic events and migration, ii) maps patterns of climate migration, and iii) explains the variation in outcomes. Using a set of limited dependent variable models, we meta-analyze thus-far the most comprehensive sample of 3,625 estimates from 116 original studies and produce novel insights on climate migration. We find that extremely high temperatures and drying conditions increase migration. We do not find a significant effect of sudden-onset events. Climate migration is most likely to emerge due to contemporaneous events, to originate in rural areas and to take place in middle-income countries, internally, to cities. The likelihood to become trapped in affected areas is higher for women and in low-income countries, particularly in Africa. We uniquely quantify how pitfalls typical for the broader empirical climate impact literature affect climate migration findings. We also find evidence of different publication biases.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 29 
KW  - migration
KW  - climate change
KW  - meta-analysis
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/49982
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-499827
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 29
ER  -