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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Determinants of Rural Youth Migration Throughout the Developing World

Organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

May 14, 2019

  • 10:00 – 11:00 am (America/New_York)
  • 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 7:30 – 8:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

The decision of whether to migrate or not is one of many important decisions that young men and women make throughout the developing world. In this webinar, we will discuss determinants of internal migration by youth within five different countries (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tanzania) using recently collected data, investigating both broad and specific hypotheses related to migration (such as whether and how migrants are positively selected on specific human capital characteristics). A key finding is that individual characteristics, like schooling, are more important determinants of migration than household characteristics. We also find little evidence that credit constraints or relative deprivation are correlated with migration at a nationally representative level, holding other things constant. This is important because previous studies, which were carried out in smaller sub-regions of countries, had found those credit constraints to be important. The webinar concludes with implications for policy in relation to migration, youth and employment, and rural development.