identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in …

idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …

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 …

varying rainfall jointly. Leveraging a saturated fixed-effects model that controls for annual trends and location …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non … also matters. Possible explanations for our findings include consequences of varying heat, humidity, and rainfall on the …

, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in … mechanisms through which these shocks operate. This paper analyses the effects of early exposure to rainfall shocks on four …-level rainfall estimates. The key identification strategy relies on temporary climatic shocks being uncorrelated with other latent …

Climate change is predicted to affect global rainfall patterns, but there is mixed evidence with regard to the effect … of rainfall on civil conflict. Even among researchers who argue that rainfall reduces civil conflict, there is … variation in the relationship between rainfall and agricultural production to explore the connection between rainfall and civil …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … would be a cost-effective way of reducing the response of infant mortality to rainfall shocks in the Brazilian semiarid. …

-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a … plausibly exogenous source of income variation. Rainfall shocks matter most for young children and monotonically decline with … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …

identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in …

-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a … plausibly exogenous source of income variation. Rainfall shocks matter most for young children and monotonically decline with … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …