Escaping from air pollution: The psychological process of domestic migration intention among urban people

Vuong, Quan‐Hoang; Le, Tam-Tri; Quang-Loc, Nguyen; Nguyen, Quang-Trung; Nguyen, Minh‐Hoang

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.00497

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“…The individual’s evaluation of migration ideation due to air pollution is a multiplex process comprising multiple socio-cultural and economic factors. Because of this multiplexity, earlier research could not find the linear association between the educational level and domestic migration intention among urban residents in Vietnam [ 46 ].…”

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“…In a former study using the same dataset on the psychological process of domestic migration intention due to air pollution [ 46 ], the brain drain effect was not found. Still, gender and age factors are shown to have a clear influence.…”

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“…The brain drain effect in our investigation seems to be “out of the blue” on two different aspects: it is induced by the desire to escape one’s polluted living place, and the mechanism behind this ideation appears unclear. Previous research found that the brain drain hypothesis was not validated in terms of domestic migration intention among urban inhabitants in Vietnam [ 46 ]. However, from the mindsponge information-processing perspective, we anticipate that the brain drain effect may be more complex than a linear relationship.…”

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Brain Drain out of the Blue: Pollution-Induced Migration in Vietnam

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Air pollution is a major problem that severely affects the health of inhabitants in developing countries’ urban areas. To deal with the problem, they may consider migration to another place as an option, which can result in the loss of skillful and talented workforces. This situation is called the brain drain phenomenon. The current study employed the Bayesian mindsponge framework (BMF) on the responses of 475 urban inhabitants in Hanoi, Vietnam—one of the most polluted capital cities in the world—to examine the risk of losing talented workforces due to air pollution. Our results show that people with higher educational levels are more likely to have intentions to migrate both domestically and internationally due to air pollution. Regarding the domestic migration intention, younger people and males have a higher probability of migrating than their counterparts. Age and gender also moderate the association between educational level and international migration intention, but their reliability needs further justification. Based on these findings, we suggest that environmental stressors caused by air pollution can influence citizen displacement intention on a large scale through the personal psychological mechanism of cost-benefit judgment. Due to the risk of air pollution on human resources, building an eco-surplus culture is crucial for enhancing environmental and socio-economic resilience.

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Brain Drain out of the Blue: Pollution-Induced Migration in Vietnam

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“…In a prior study on Hanoi inhabitants' migration intention, we found that people's domestic migration probability is influenced by the perceived availability of less polluted provinces. Still, the effect shrinks if the distance cost is high ( Nguyen, 2021a). Interpretively, health costs inflicted by air pollution might be a vital element that drives moving ideation, but economic factors cannot be separated from the cost-benefit judgment process of migration.…”

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Investigation into the Rationale of Migration Intention Due to Air Pollution Integrating the Homo Oeconomicus Traits

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“…There have been many studies carried out to find out the impact of air pollution on the lives of people in the urban cities [7,8], which inspire to conduct this study. This study is a part of assignment project of Introduction to Statistics and Probabilities class, which attempts to enlighten up the fact as to why the local government should take steps to improve the air quality and also verifies the effects of population migration caused by air pollution.…”

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