| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20172 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20172 |
| Under-investment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh | |
| Gharad Bryan; Shyamal Chowdhury; Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-05-29 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to temporarily out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22% of households to send a seasonal migrant, their consumption at the origin increases significantly, and treated households are 8-10 percentage points more likely to re-migrate 1 and 3 years after the incentive is removed. These facts can be explained qualitatively by a model in which migration is risky, mitigating risk requires individual-specific learning, and some migrants are sufficiently close to subsistence that failed migration is very costly. We document evidence consistent with this model using heterogeneity analysis and additional experimental variation, but calibrations with forward-looking households that can save up to migrate suggest that it is difficult for the model to quantitatively match the data. We conclude with extensions to the model that could provide a better quantitative accounting of the behavior. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Regional and Urban Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20172 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577845 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gharad Bryan,Shyamal Chowdhury,Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. Under-investment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh. 2014. |
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