Has climate change driven urbanization in Africa?

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• 作者：J. Vernon Henderson^a ; ^{J.V.Henderson@lse.ac.uk} ; Adam Storeygard^b ; ^{Adam.Storeygard@tufts.edu} ; Uwe Deichmann^c ; ^{Udeichmann@worldbank.org}
• 关键词：O10 ; O55 ; Q54 ; R12
• 刊名：Journal of Development Economics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：124
• 期：Complete
• 页码：60-82
• 全文大小：3629 K
• 卷排序：124

文摘

We document strong but nuanced climate-urbanization links in Sub-Saharan Africa. Drying increases urbanization and total income in cities most likely to have industry. Drying has little effect on cities with little expected industry (75% of sample). Cities with industry may provide an escape from declining farm conditions.