Media exposure and internal migration — Evidence from Indonesia

Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.11.001

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“…In fact, the lack of information available to people coming from rural areas and the limited opportunities, in terms of labor market prospects open to them, may prevent such people from moving internally to urban areas or internationally [58,59,62]. How the amount of available information affects internal migration patterns in Indonesia is an issue tackled by [63].…”

Section: Climate Shocks and Internal Migrationmentioning

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Migration: A Survey

2018

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This paper proposes a selective review of the classical economics-based literature on climate change and migration, focusing on the extent to which agriculture might be considered a key mediating channel linking climate change to migration. Overall, climate change is expected to have large and negative effects on the global economy. These effects are even more evident whenever the economic sector considered is the agricultural one, particularly in developing countries. Hence, migration can be viewed as a specific form of adaptation implemented by individuals and households, enabling them to cope, among other things, with weather-induced risk. We show that the importance of agriculture emerges from both plenty of micro-level country studies and relatively few macro-level analyses using cross-sectional data over longer time periods. Thus, policy actions targeted to sustainable agriculture and rural development can both help tackle the challenges posed by climate change and create opportunities in the face of growing migration issues. However, we also stress that much of the current evidence is based on statistical associations that have nothing to do with causal inferences. This calls for the use of a more structural approach and more sophisticated research designs, enabling the researchers to better discriminate among different mechanisms concurrently at work. In addition, further research should be addressed to the role played by food security, a complex dimension largely missing in the current debates on climate change and migration.

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Section: Climate Shocks and Internal Migrationmentioning

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Migration: A Survey

2018

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“…15 Second, we use a more flexible specification for installing landline phones in the future and past, that is, replacing our regressor of interest ( Table 5, we find similar patterns in outmigration between treatment and control groups before the installation of landline phones, but they diverge right after the installation. Furthermore, we test whether the post-installation coefficients are different from pre-installation ones, the F statistic for the joint test is 2.74, and we can reject the null hypothesis that all the post-treatment coefficients 15 As a rough but important additional test, we also exclude "Tele" in the same regression, and find that "landline phone anticipator" still remains statistically insignificant (the results are available upon request).…”

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“…But better information does not uniformly encourage migration-it depends on whether potential migrants over-or under-estimate the prospects of the potential destinations. If potential migrants over-estimate their employment and life prospects in the destination region, better access to information may decrease migration, as found by Farre and Fasani (2012).…”

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Telecommunication externality on migration: Evidence from Chinese villages

Xie

2016

China Economic Review

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Abstract:We use a unique data set of Chinese villages to investigate whether access to telecommunications, in particular, landline phones, increases the likelihood of outmigration.By using regional and time variations in the installation of landline phones, our difference-in-differences (DID) estimation shows that the access to landline phones increases the ratio of out-migrant workers by 2 percentage points, or about 51 percent of the sample mean in China. The results remain robust to a battery of validity checks. Furthermore, landline phones affect outmigration through two channels: information access on job opportunities and timely contact with left-behind family members. Our findings underscore the positive migration externality of expanding telecommunications access in rural areas, especially in places where migration potential is large.

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“…During its infancy, the content broadcast by media was stringently controlled by the government. A study by Sanyoto () concluded that the media “had to be hostile to dissidents and critics, and portray them as detrimental to state security.” TVRI was expected to contribute to the unity of Indonesia and to Indonesia's growth as a nation (Farré & Fasani, ). Press council and journalists were also under tight control, through the licensing system, among other constraints.…”

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The impact of media on behaviour: Evidence from television coverage expansion and declining fertility in Indonesia

Dewi¹,

Suryadarma²,

Suryahadi³

2017

Development Policy Review

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The media is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in affecting the behaviour of individuals. In this article, we examine the effect of an expansion of private television broadcast on fertility in Indonesia. Our district fixed effects estimation results show that increasing the share of population with access to private television by one‐standard deviation—from a 78% coverage to a universal coverage—reduces crude birth rate by 6.2%, equivalent to 190,000 fewer births. We find evidence that television causes an increase in the use of modern contraceptives, but no change in the use of traditional contraceptives. The finding that expanding television coverage increases the demand for modern contraceptives shows that policy‐makers need to ensure that modern contraceptive is easily accessible.

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Media exposure and internal migration — Evidence from Indonesia

Cited by 55 publications

References 48 publications

Climate Change, Agriculture and Migration: A Survey

Climate Change, Agriculture and Migration: A Survey

Telecommunication externality on migration: Evidence from Chinese villages

The impact of media on behaviour: Evidence from television coverage expansion and declining fertility in Indonesia

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