Fleeing Climate Hazards: Evidence From U.S. Domestic Migration 1990-2022

dc.contributor.author	Kwong, Russell
dc.date.accessioned	2025-05-15T21:01:07Z
dc.date.available	2025-05-15T21:01:07Z
dc.date.issued	2025-05-15
dc.description.abstract	Residential location choice is among the largest decisions in one’s lifetime, and decisions to move are complicated by a multitude of factors. Among these factors, environmental conditions are not often cited as the primary driver of location choice. This paper explores associations between the environment, especially climate hazards, and domestic migration using publicly available data from 1990-2022. This research combines data from the Internal Revenue Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, among other sources to present data-backed observations of climate-induced migration. Through a fixed effects model, households’ migration decisions are shown to be increasingly sensitive to hurricane disasters and extremely cold weather in recent years. This paper concludes with implications for urban planning and building resilience in the era of climate change.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/116906
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject	demography
dc.subject	hurricane
dc.subject	spatial equilibrium
dc.subject	IRS
dc.title	Fleeing Climate Hazards: Evidence From U.S. Domestic Migration 1990-2022
dc.type	dissertation or thesis
schema.accessibilityHazard	none

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