TY  - RPRT
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
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-499827
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 29
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Graeber, Daniel
A1  - Schikora, Felicitas
T1  - Hate is too great a burden to bear
BT  - Hate crimes and the mental health of refugees
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. We apply a regression discontinuity in time design to estimate the effect of interest. Our results indicate that hate crime has a substantial negative effect on several mental health indicators, including the Mental Component Summary score and the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 score. The effects are stronger for refugees with closer geographic proximity to the focal hate crime and refugees with low country-specific human capital. While the estimated effect is only transitory, we argue that negative mental health shocks during the critical period after arrival have important long-term consequences. Keywords: Mental health, hate crime, migration, refugees, human capital.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 31 
KW  - mental health
KW  - hate crime
KW  - migration
KW  - refugees
KW  - human capital
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-507972
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 31
ER  -