Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this …

monthly precipitation data to investigate the nature of the monsoon shock and to quantify household vulnerability to it. The … season cultivation and, coincidently, where groundwater irrigates dry season cultivation. In these communities, household … size, area cultivated, agricultural and non-agricultural income, and household per capita food consumption measured nine …

impacts. The analysis finds that household structure is an important determinant of the behavioral and distributional impacts …