Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia
This paper explores the relationship between migration and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia. Given that there are fairly significant returns to either rural-urban or international migration for labor in Ethiopia, it could be that credit constraints hindering migration start-up are an unexplored...
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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2015
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| author | de Brauw, Alan |
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| description | This paper explores the relationship between migration and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia. Given that there are fairly significant returns to either rural-urban or international migration for labor in Ethiopia, it could be that credit constraints hindering migration start-up are an unexplored constraint against migration. The paper primarily uses the Ethiopia Rural Household Survey panel and a migrant listing exercise completed after the 2009 survey round to explore whether past agricultural productivity (e.g. in 2004) explains later migration. Using standard regression techniques, it finds that among young migrants, there appears to be a positive, significant relationship between productivity and households sending out a migrant. This relationship holds even when proxies for credit are included in the model; the effect appears to, in fact, be stronger among households who are less endowed with land. However, the magnitude of this effect is small. The paper also considers feedback effects from migration to later agricultural productivity; this correlation is weaker suggesting that migration does not have negative productivity impacts. Brauw, Alan de |
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| spelling | CGSpace1498692025-11-06T06:16:48Z Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia de Brauw, Alan economic development youth migration This paper explores the relationship between migration and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia. Given that there are fairly significant returns to either rural-urban or international migration for labor in Ethiopia, it could be that credit constraints hindering migration start-up are an unexplored constraint against migration. The paper primarily uses the Ethiopia Rural Household Survey panel and a migrant listing exercise completed after the 2009 survey round to explore whether past agricultural productivity (e.g. in 2004) explains later migration. Using standard regression techniques, it finds that among young migrants, there appears to be a positive, significant relationship between productivity and households sending out a migrant. This relationship holds even when proxies for credit are included in the model; the effect appears to, in fact, be stronger among households who are less endowed with land. However, the magnitude of this effect is small. The paper also considers feedback effects from migration to later agricultural productivity; this correlation is weaker suggesting that migration does not have negative productivity impacts. Brauw, Alan de 2015-01-01 2024-08-01T02:50:07Z 2024-08-01T02:50:07Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149869 en Open Access application/pdf Agricultural and Applied Economics Association de Brauw, Alan. 2015. Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia. Paper prepared for the AAEA session on "Immigration, agricultural employment, and trade: International perspectives," at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Association (ASSA), January 3-5, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts. Milwaukee, WI, USA: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). https://purl.umn.edu/189684 |
| spellingShingle | economic development youth migration de Brauw, Alan Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia |
| title | Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Migration, youth, and agricultural productivity in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | migration youth and agricultural productivity in ethiopia |
| topic | economic development youth migration |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149869 |
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