microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households … negative rainfall shock from the long-term mean increases the incidence by about 13.1 per cent compared to the baseline. We …

Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with …

-time models. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible misspecification of the prior distribution … a general â toolboxâ for a wide range of specifications which includes the dynamic space- time panel model with random … effects, with cross-correlated effects à la Chamberlain, for the Hausman-Taylor world and for dynamic panel data models with …

gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be …

find a strong negative impact of drought on the decision of youth to migrate in the year after the adverse weather shock … cushion the blow of the shock on the resources required to finance migration. We also find that households that report more …

households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high …