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Jose Luis Flor Toro: "Natural disasters and internal migration: Evidence from Peru"

Abstract: It is undeniable that recent years have seen some of the worst disasters in history, and migration (the permanent displacement of people from certain places) has not been immune to this situation. In this paper, we perform a regression analysis showing how the disaster may cause internal migration in Peru, using a database with natural disasters in Peru (Desinventar.net) and the many Census in Peru (1981, 1993, 2007, 2014). We show that migration is not immune to natural disasters, and that in fact internal migration in Peru responds to geological and marine-related natural disasters as well. We also try to economically explain why we observe an effect on labor and capital to these disasters.