International Migration Responses to Natural Disasters: Evidence from Modern Europe&Apos;S Deadliest Earthquake

Voting with their Sandals: Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk

“…For example, Hornbeck (2012) shows that in the decades after the Dust Bowl ravaged the U.S. plains the primary margin of stabilizing adjustment was via migration away from the area, but this (de)stabilizing nature of migration depends on the type of resident migration. Consistent with evidence in modern data on sorting near high-risk flood zones (Bakkensen and Ma 2020), and migration following natural disasters (Boustan et al 2012;Mahajan & Yang 2020;Spitzer et al 2020), Hornbeck (2020) shows that Dust Bowl migrants were "negatively selected" via lower education and likely lower income. 5 An important difference in our case is that migration is responding to future expectations, which means that it affects future responses to climate change.…”

Dust Bowl Migrants: Identifying an Archetype

“…This paper relates to a broad literature on migration, which represents an important margin of economic adaptation. The Dust Bowl provides a rare opportunity to explore migration responses to a permanent collapse in the local environment, in contrast to more exploration of migration responses to more-temporary natural disasters and weather shocks (Piguet, Pécoud and de Guchteneire, 2011;Boustan, Kahn and Rhode, 2012;Marchiori, Maystadt and Schumacher, 2012;Bohra-Mishra, Oppenheimer and Hsiang, 2014;Cai et al, 2016;Deryugina, 2017;Deryugina, Kawano and Levitt, 2018;Boustan et al, 2019;Deryugina and Molitor, 2019;Mahajan and Yang, 2020;Spitzer, Tortorici and Zimran, 2020). The migration literature has long considered how migrant selection varies across contexts (Roy, 1951;Borjas, 1987), and characterizing the Dust Bowl migrants and their experiences provides an opportunity to refine this archetype of environmental refugee.…”

Environmental migration? A Systematic review and Meta-analysis of the literature

“…This might be motivated by the fact that the European continent is mostly seen as a destination for migrants than an origin. It should not surprise that the two articles covering European countries, namely Italy (Spitzer et al, 2020) and the Netherlands (Jennings and Gray, 2015) analyze historical data of mobility at the beginning of the XX century (respectively earthquake in Sicily and Calabria and climate variability associated with riverine flooding in the Netherlands). Nevertheless, figures show that Europe is not unrelated to the occurrence and frequency of hazards as well as to sizable internal mobility that should receive some attention.…”