NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions and HSE
International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development are
happy to invite you to our joint meeting of the Research Seminar on
Diversity and Development and HSE Seminar on Political Economy.
Michele Valsecchi(NES) will present his paper “Internal migration
networks and mortality in home communities” (joint work with Ruben
Durante).
Abstract:
Can migration networks harm their home communities? Looking at the
spread of a virus in Italy and using pre-determined
province-to-province migration, excess mortality and mobile phone
tracking data, we document that provinces with a greater share of
migrants in outbreak areas show lower local mobility (information
mechanism), but also a greater population inflow from outbreak areas
(carrier mechanism). For a subset of localities, the net effect on
mortality is negative. However, for the average locality, the effect
is positive and large, suggesting that the migrants' role as
information providers is trumped by their role as virus carriers. The
effect is quantitatively important as it accounts for 60% of virus
deaths outside outbreak areas.
Registration: till noon of December 1, link to video-conference will
be sent up to 5 p.m.