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ArticlePopulation and environment2021

Migration and Fuel Use in Rural Zambia.

Yu Wu, Barbara Entwisle, Cyrus Sinai, Sudhanshu Handa

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Article in Population and environment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yu WuCarolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA.
Barbara EntwisleCarolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA.
Cyrus SinaiCarolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA.
Sudhanshu HandaCarolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Research Services CoreP2CHD050924 · NICHD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI KAREN B GUZZO · 2015 to 2026
$9.6M
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD050924
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

What is the effect of migration on fuel use in rural Zambia? Opportunities to increase income can be scarce in this setting; in response, households may pursue a migration strategy to increase resources as well as to mitigate risk. Migrant remittances may make it possible for households to shift from primary reliance on firewood to charcoal, and the loss of productive labor through migration may reinforce this shift. This paper uses four waves of panel data collected as part of the Child Grant Programme in rural Zambia to examine the connection between migration and the choice of firewood or charcoal as cooking fuel and finds evidence for both mechanisms. Importantly, this paper considers migration as a process, including out- as well as return migration, embedding it in the context of household dynamics generally. Empirical results suggest that while migration helps move households away from firewood as a fuel source, return migration moves them back, but because firewood is more common, the overall effect of migration is to shift households away from primary reliance on firewood towards charcoal.

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Energy PovertyFuel UseHousehold DynamicsMigrationZambia

Identifiers

PMID34924664
PMCPMC8682914
OpenAlexW3168924375

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