Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected
to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban …

Will economic development in poor countries cause less migration, or more? this simple
question has tremendous relevance to the future of migration policy as the world develops …

Despite the lack of robust empirical evidence, a growing number of media reports attempt to
link climate change to the ongoing violent conflicts in Syria and other parts of the world, as …

Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced in recent years by several
countries, could affect agricultural productivity. As a consequence the income of rural …

We examine natural disasters and long‐run climatic factors as potential determinants of
international migration, implementing a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows from 1960 …

There is long-standing debate on how population growth affects national economies. A new
report from Population Matters examines the history of this debate and synthesizes current …

This paper analyzes the effects of weather anomalies on migration in sub-Saharan Africa.
We present a theoretical model that demonstrates how weather anomalies induce rural …

In this paper, I empirically investigate the determinants of migration inflows into 14 OECD
countries by country of origin between 1980 and 1995. I analyze the effect on migration of …

Emigration first increases and then decreases as a country experiences economic
development. This inverted U-shaped, cross-sectional relationship between emigration and …

Transitions from high mortality and fertility to low mortality and fertility can be beneficial to
economies as large baby boom cohorts enter the workforce and save for retirement, while …