Environmental shocks and migration among a climate-vulnerable population in Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT: Various studies predict large migration flows due to climatic and other environmental changes, yet the ex post empirical evidence for such migration is inconclusive. To examine the causal link between environmental changes and migration for a population residing along the Jamuna River in Bangladesh, an area heavily affected by floods and riverbank erosion, I relate the respondents' self-reported affectedness by environmental changes, their migration aspirations, and their capability to move to their migration likelihood. The analysis relies on a unique quasi-experimental research design based on original survey panel data of 1604 household heads. I find that erosion significantly and substantively increases the likelihood to migrate, leading to more than a doubling of the migration likelih

SUBMITTER: Freihardt J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11754328 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature