2. A detailed treatment on the migration effects of rainfall shocks is provided in the World Bank report Ebb and Flow: Water, Migration, and Development (World Bank 2021). 3. Statistical geography is the study and practice of collecting, analyzing, and presenting data that have a geographic or a real dimension, such as census or demographics data. It uses techniques from spatial analysis, but also encompasses geographical activities such as the defining and naming of geographical regions for statistical purposes. 4. Leading regions considered in the study are Djibouti city in Djibouti; Alexandria, Cairo, Port Said and Suez in the Arab Republic of Egypt; the Kurdistan governorates in Iraq (Duhouk, Erbil, and Suleimaniya); Tehran in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Amman in Jordan; the Casablanca-Settat area in Morocco; Grand Tunis in Tunisia; and Sana’a in the Republic of Yemen. 5. The sum of endowments and returns effects gives the total welfare gap. 6. Only 13.8 percent of Americans moved to another county, state, or country in the previous five years in the 2010 Census, compared to 21 percent in the 1990 and 2000 Censuses. 7. Under some conditions, the net tax rebate will be zero as it will just offset the net transfers needed to correct for the urban externalities. This result is referred to as the Henry George Theorem (see Arnott 2004). 8. By failing to control for public-service differentials, econometric estimates may thus overstate a migrant’s willingness to move in response to wage differences (Brueckner and Lall 2015).
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