DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A MIGRATION EXPERIMENT IN THAILAND

In many less developed countries, planners are concerned about the concentration of population in one or two major cities. The authors implemented a small-scale experimental program in Northeast Thailand designed to alter patterns of outinigration from a rural area, specifically to redirect migration to urban centers within the same region rather than toward Bangkok. Using data from a baseline survey and a follow-up survey 12 months later, strong effects on mobility behavior, modest effects on information, and little or no effect on community evaluations and mobility plans are discerned. Implications for the attitude-behavior literature are discussed.