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Agricultural productivity shocks and poverty in India : the short- and long-term effects of monsoon rainfall

Brey, Björn; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2019

This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension (local/regional). We find that particularly negative...

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International trade and the transmission of temperature shocks

Osberghaus, Daniel; Schenker, Oliver - 2022

We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …

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Cluster externalities, firm capabilities, and the recessionary shock : how the macro-to-micro-transition shapes firm performance during stable times and times of crisis

Hundt, Christian; Holtermann, Linus; Steeger, Jonas; … - 2019

macroeconomic instability caused by the recessionary shock of 2008/2009. Using data from 16,166 manufacturing and business services …

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Murder nature weather and violent crime in Brazil

Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2021

This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on violent crime using disaggregated data from Brazilian … municipalities over the period 1991-2015. I document that adverse weather shocks in the form of droughts lead to a significant … increase in violent crime, with the effect appearing to persist beyond the growing season and over the medium run. To explain …

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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa

Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021

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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...

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The effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade : a review of the empirical literature

Osberghaus, Daniel - 2019

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on …

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Income shocks, borrowing constraints and household child schooling : evidence from rural Thailand

Sasiwooth Wongmonta - 2021

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COVID-19 and the formation of energy conservation routines : disentangling the relative importance of attention and income shocks

Löschel, Andreas; Price, Michael Keith; Razzolini, Laura; … - 2022

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formation of energy conservation routines. To do so, we use data from two nationwide surveys of German households, conducted before and during the pandemic. Across the two survey waves, we document a significant increase in the likelihood...

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Partial pooling with cross-country priors : an application to house price shocks

Roth, Markus - 2020

A structural Bayesian vector autoregression model predicts that - when accompanied by a decline in consumer confidence - a one-percent decrease in house prices is associated with a contraction of economic activity by 0.2 to 1.2 percent after one year. Results point to important second-round...

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