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 -