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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India
Verma, Saumya - 2020
How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India's major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839358
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Can a Growing World be Fed when the Climate is Changing?
Dietz, Simon - 2020
We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012845688
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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Falco, Salvatore; B. Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua Evan; Callen, Michael - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India's major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207926
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Climate Change, Rice Crops and Violence. Evidence from Indonesia
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333381
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Can a Growing World Be Fed When the Climate Is Changing?
Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019
We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179785
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Agricultural Price Shocks and Business Cycles - A Global Warning for Advanced Economies
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2018
For a panel of 75 countries, we find that increases in global agricultural commodity prices that are caused by unfavorable harvest shocks in other regions of the world significantly curtail domestic economic activity. The effects are much larger than for average global agricultural price shifts....
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Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, and climate change is predicted to intensify this...
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All Symmetric Equilibria in Differential Games with Public Goods
Jaakkola, Niko - 2020
We characterise the entire set of symmetric stationary Markov-perfect Nash equilibria (MPE) in a differential game of public good investment, using the canonical problem of climate change as an example. We provide a sufficient and necessary condition for MPE and show how the entire set of MPE is...
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