Child Fostering in a Changing Climate: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT: An extensive social science literature has examined the effects of climate change on human migration. Prior studies have focused largely on the out-migration of working-age adults or entire households, with less attention to migration and other forms of geographic mobility among other age groups, including youth. In this study, we focus on the implications of climate variability for the movement of children by examining the association between climate exposures and the in- and out-fostering of children in sub-Saharan Africa. We link high-resolution temperature and precipitation records to data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for 23 sub-Saharan African countries. We fit a series of regression models to measure the overall associations between climate exposures and each outcome, and

SUBMITTER: Ronnkvist S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11221789 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature