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Baez, Javier - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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Extreme Temperatures and Time-Use in China

Garg, Teevrat - 2019

How do people in developing countries respond to extreme temperatures? Using individual-level panel data over two decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China. Extreme temperatures reduce time spent working, and...

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Climate Change and Political Participation : Evidence from India

Amirapu, Amrit; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2022

We study the effects of extreme temperature shocks on political participation using data from Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. Taking advantage of localized, high-frequency data on land surface temperatures, we find that areas with greater cumulative exposure to extreme temperatures...

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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Falco, Salvatore; 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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Food for Fuel : The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the … RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … partial equilibrium model to estimate the effect of the RFS on the price of selected food commodities - rice, wheat, corn …

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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality : Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Cesur, Resul - 2013

One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...

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Household Cooking Fuel Choice in India, 2004-2012 : A Panel Multinomial Analysis

Kuo, Ying-Min - 2019

We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for unobserved household heterogeneity. We find that a...

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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...

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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country

Cesur, Resul - 2016

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...

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The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2015

Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative sources of energy to avoid the impact of higher fossil fuel prices and political instability in...

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