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Extreme weather events and child height : evidence from Mongolia

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the …

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The impact of extreme weather events on education

Groppo, Valeria; Kraehnert, Kati - 2015

This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411244

Food intake and the role of food self-provisioning

Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Kraehnert, Kati - 2015

Mongolia. Our analysis is based on rich household survey data that collected food consumption through consumption diaries. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411516

Does index insurance help households recover from disaster? : evidence from IBLI Mongolia

Bertram-Huemmer, Veronika; Kraehnert, Kati - 2015

a catastrophic weather disaster occurs. Our focus is on the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in Mongolia. We … analyze the effect of IBLI indemnity payments after a once-in-50-year winter disaster struck Mongolia over 2009/10. The … database for our analysis is three waves of a household panel survey implemented in western Mongolia. We employ the bias …

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When shocks become persistent : household-level asset growth in the aftermath of an extreme weather event

Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Kraehnert, Kati - 2018

-year winter disaster on post-shock livestock accumulation among pastoralists in Mongolia. Building on a unique household …

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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2007

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Movers or stayers? : understanding the drivers of IDP camp decongestion during post-conflict recovery in Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2012

The paper explores factors that influence the household decision to leave internal displacement camps in the immediate aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern Uganda for households that were displaced by the...

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Activity choices of internally displaced persons and returnees : quantitative survey evidence from post-war northern Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2011

We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people's (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war northern Uganda. As the decision to relocate from a camp is voluntary, camp residents may be different from returnees. We merge household data with micro-level conflict data to...

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The dynamics of repeat migration : a Markov chain analysis

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003 - Draft: October 2003

While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...

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Circular movements And time away from the host country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years being away from the host country using count data models....

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