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Econ Seminar: Giacomo Battiston (Rockwool Foundation)

Giacomo Battiston (linkfrom Rockwool Foundation   (Berlin) will present his paper entitled  "Informing Risky Migration: Evidence from a field experiment in Guinea" on Wednesday, 21st of February at 11.45.  The seminar will be physical at FASS 2054 but it can also be attended  at the following link https://sabanciuniv.zoom.us/j/91383976765
 

Informing Risky Migration: Evidence from a field experiment in Guinea

Can information provision to potential migrants affect risky and irregular migration? We address this question conducting a large-scale randomized experiment with over 7,000 secondary school students in Guinea. We provide information through videotestimonies by migrants who settled in Europe and through aggregate statistics. We implement three treatments: (i) information about the risks and costs of the journey; (ii) information about economic outcomes in the destination country; and (iii) a combination of (i) and (ii). One month after the intervention, all the treatments led to students updating their beliefs about the risks and the economic outcomes of migration and to decrease their wishes, plans, preparations for migrations. One year later, the risk treatment leads to a 51% reduction in migration outside Guinea.

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