Weather Variability and Agriculture: Implications for Long Term and Short-Term Migration in India

Author : K.S. Kavi Kumar, Brinda Viswanathan | 2012

Published By: Centre for Development Economics

This paper, (a) analyses the role of weather variability in inducing short-term migration using NSS (2007-08) data; and (b) estimates elasticity of long-term migration with respect to weather variability using Census data over the period 1981-2001.

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