Terrorism and emigration: does it depend on the measure and sample used?

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The relationship between terrorism and migration is currently an international issue. This paper studies the impact of the total number of victims and the total number of attacks on migration flows. Moreover, I estimate the impact of terrorism on migration flows according to countries' level of development. The main hypothesis is that terrorism can decrease freedom of movement in the poorest countries, and increase migration costs due to higher adaptation costs. At the world level, I find that the number of victims has a positive and significant effect on international emigration, while this is not true for the number of attacks. Interestingly, South-South migration is not affected by terrorism, while the South-North corridor is influenced by both the number of victims and the number of attacks. However, when the development gap between origin and destination increases, these effects tend to shade off.