On 18 June 2025, we were delighted to welcome Prof. Marco Tabellini from Harvard Business School.
As part of our lecture series on Cross-Border Labor Mobility, Prof. Tabellini delivered an insightful lecture on “Climate Matching in Migration”.
The lecture explored the notion of climate matching in migration, i.e., the idea that migrants seek out destinations with a climate similar to that of origin. First, the lecture documented climate matching in the US context, between 1850 and 2020, for both domestic and international migration. Second, it explored the mechanisms driving climate matching, providing evidence for both climate specific skills and climate as amenity. Third, it established similar patterns in a variety of other context, including immigration to Brazil between 1850 and 1920 and pre-history migration. The lecture presented new methods to infer migration over millennia, using ancient DNA (aDNA) data, and documenting that climate similarity shaped human mobility also in the ancient past. Fourth, the lecture explored the consequences of climate mismatch, examining mortality of immigrants and their children in the US and studying the performance of athletes in sports.
This lecture series is organized by Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and the Doctoral School in Economics, Finance and Management at the University of Luxembourg, in the framework of the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), Luxembourg funded project ACROSS and financing scheme RESCOM.
The next lecture will feature Prof. Francisca Antman from the University of Colorado and will focus on “Assimilation and Integration of Hispanic Immigrants and Their Descendants”.
An event supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (PRIDE19/14302992) and (RESCOM/2024/LE/18786706).
