current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms’ revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … general, dairy farmers ‘benefit’ more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …

with access to sanitation and hygiene. Finally, both direct and indirect risks associated with flood and drought on health …

, unlike recurring droughts, a first-time exposure to a three-month severe drought reduces individuals' body mass index by 2 …

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an … drought and relying on automatic adjustments through a zero marginal social net benefit condition, iii) an economically … optimal dynamic policy taking account of the threat of a drought. In particular, we show that the optimal pre-drought steady …

drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …

, unlike recurring droughts, a first-time exposure to a three-month severe drought reduces individuals’ body mass index by 2 …

current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms’ revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … general, dairy farmers ‘benefit’ more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I … construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate … that those more affected by the drought more often participated in peasant revolts against the feudal system. Then, I …