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DROUGHT AND POPULATION MOBILITY IN RURAL ETHIOPIA
1University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geography, 205 Saunders Hall, Campus Box 3220, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220, , , Cell: (919) 960-5808, cgray@email.unc.edu , Alternate clarklgray@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Significant attention has focused on the possibility that climate change will displace large populations in the developing world, but few multivariate studies have investigated climate-induced migration. We use event history methods and a unique longitudinal dataset from the rural Ethiopian highlands to investigate the effects of drought on population mobility over a ten-year period. The results indicate that men's labor migration increases with drought and that land-poor households are most vulnerable. However, marriage-related moves by women also decrease with drought. These findings suggest a hybrid narrative of environmentally-induced migration that recognizes multiple dimensions of adaptation to environmental change.
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