Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 % of households to send a seasonal migrant, their consump...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Gharad Bryan, Keesler Welch, Violetta Kuzmova
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and doc...
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to temporarily out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22% of households to send a seasonal migrant, th...
Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Gharad Bryan
The rural northwestern districts of Bangladesh, home to 10 million people, experience a preharvest seasonal famine, locally known as Monga, with disturbing regularity. Surprisingly, outmigration from the Monga-prone districts is not all that common. This research tests whether migration could play a...
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Bryan, Gharad et al.
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22% of households to send a seasonal migrant, their consumpt...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Gharad Bryan, Keesler Welch, Violetta Kuzmova
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to temporarily out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22% of households to send a seasonal migrant, th...
Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
This paper presents the results of a financial intervention in northwestern Bangladesh intended to promote out-migration to nearby urban areas during the lean season before harvest in order to mitigate famine (monga). This is in order to understand whether this is a viable mitigation strategy, and i...
Gharad Bryan, Sudeshna Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak