@article{Arcand:295865,
      recid = {295865},
      author = {Arcand, Jean-Louis L and Mbaye, Linguère Mously},
      title = {Braving the waves the role of time and risk preferences in  illegal migration from Senegal},
      publisher = {IZA},
      address = {Bonn. 2013},
      number = {BOOK},
      series = {IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 7517},
      pages = {28 p. : ill.},
      year = {2013},
      note = {Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the 10th  IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM2) and 4th Migration Topic  Week, Jerusalem, Israel; the third AFD-World Bank  International Migration and Development Conference, Paris,  France and the CSAE Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom},
      abstract = {This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning  the relationship between time and risk preferences and  illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our  theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential  migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure  of time and risk preferences through the individual's  intertemporal discount rate and coefficient of absolute  risk aversion. Remarkably, our results show that these  individual preferences matter in the willingness to migrate  illegally and to pay a smuggler.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865},
}