%0 Journal Article %A Zachary Barnett-Howell %A Jeremy Foltz %T Determinants of Migration: Cotton Strikes and Income Shocks in Mali %D 2022 %R 10.3368/le.98.4.082120-0130R %J Land Economics %P 700-714 %V 98 %N 4 %X How do transitory income shocks affect household migration decisions in low-income countries? We study how income losses from a cotton strike affecting Malian districts differentially changed agricultural household migration choices. The short duration and geographic specificity of the strike allows us to cleanly identify the long-run impact of a sudden change in household income on migration choices. We show that a drop in income precipitated by the strike reduced household migration rates by approximately 32% over a six-year period. A randomized inference placebo test corroborates the validity of our result. We demonstrate that not having cash on hand is a binding constraint to labor migration for poor populations. %U https://le.uwpress.org/content/wple/98/4/700.full.pdf