identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in …

-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a … plausibly exogenous source of income variation. Rainfall shocks matter most for young children and monotonically decline with … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …

Climate change is predicted to affect global rainfall patterns, but there is mixed evidence with regard to the effect … of rainfall on civil conflict. Even among researchers who argue that rainfall reduces civil conflict, there is … variation in the relationship between rainfall and agricultural production to explore the connection between rainfall and civil …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … would be a cost-effective way of reducing the response of infant mortality to rainfall shocks in the Brazilian semiarid. …

Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the … period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth and moves toward and away from greater … democracy. To address the potential endogeneity of economic growth, we use variation in precipitation, temperatures, and …

production and rainfall shocks as alternative measures of crop failure. The analysis also contributes to the debate on the …