In a recent pre-print, DUSP doctoral student Ashley Vicary examines how climate change shapes international migration, ultimately finding that, in the world’s poorest countries, unexpectedly hot months make people less likely to leave — not more. Increased heat seems to take away the means for people to move; this data argues against the concept of certain populations becoming “climate refugees” as part of global shifts in climate.
Read more via the MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE) Working Paper Series: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7609141
