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. The findings complicate the common image of "climate refugees" fleeing a warming world: for the poorest, heat may trap people in place rather than push them out.
Read more via the MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE) Working Paper Series: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7609141
