000295865 001__ 295865 000295865 005__ 20250213113250.0 000295865 037__ $$aBOOK 000295865 245__ $$aBraving the waves$$bthe role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal 000295865 260__ $$aBonn$$bIZA$$c2013 000295865 269__ $$a2013 000295865 300__ $$a28 p. : ill. 000295865 336__ $$aPapers and Reports 000295865 490__ $$aIZA Discussion Paper ; No. 7517 000295865 500__ $$aEarlier versions of this paper were presented at the 10th IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM2) and 4th Migration Topic Week, Jerusalem, Israel; the third AFD-World Bank International Migration and Development Conference, Paris, France and the CSAE Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom 000295865 520__ $$aThis 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. 000295865 700__ $$aArcand, Jean-Louis L 000295865 700__ $$aMbaye, Linguère Mously 000295865 8564_ $$uhttps://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf$$9963e974d-f216-4d0b-a4f0-17138628b228$$s231432 000295865 8564_ $$uhttps://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295865/files/dp7517.pdf?subformat=pdfa$$xpdfa$$9390d1fa5-7696-469d-b61e-931e8a72f553$$s1669730 000295865 901__ $$uInternational Economics Department$$0319285 000295865 909CO $$ooai:repository.graduateinstitute.ch:295865$$pGLOBAL_SET$$pIHEID:Explore