TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Arcand, Jean-Louis L
AU  - Mbaye, Linguère Mously
CY  - Bonn
DA  - 2013
DA  - 2013
ID  - 295865
L1  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf
L1  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf?subformat=pdfa
L2  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf
L2  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf?subformat=pdfa
L4  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf
L4  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf?subformat=pdfa
LK  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf
LK  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf?subformat=pdfa
N1  - 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
N2  - 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.
PB  - IZA
PP  - Bonn
PY  - 2013
PY  - 2013
T1  - Braving the wavesthe role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal
TI  - Braving the wavesthe role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal
UR  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf
UR  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf?subformat=pdfa
Y1  - 2013
ER  -