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Rather than allowing water prices to reflect scarcity rents during periods of drought-induced excess demand, policy … unique panel data on residential end-uses of water, we examine the welfare implications of typical drought policies. Using …
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This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can identify zones of stability/instability and characterize resilience and traps. Resilience means...
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We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During...
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In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for … cents per gallon of water saved on average. Moreover, informing consumers about the drought severity increases the WTP for …
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environmental crises in North America in the 20th Century. Severe drought and wind erosion hit the Great Plains in 1930 and lasted …
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Drought is Africa's primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper … documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in … these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in South African Census data with cross-sectional and temporal drought …
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microinsurance scheme reduces both forms of costly coping. Threshold econometrics grounded in theory reveal a more complex pattern …
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-arid regions where farming was vulnerable to drought. Farmers who migrated to the region had to adapt their crops, techniques, and … drought. In this paper, we examine why homestead failure occurred in the Great Plains, by analyzing two episodes in western … perceive drought. Homesteaders had neither an analytical framework nor sufficient data for predicting fluctuations in rainfall …
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Drought is Africa's most prevalent natural disaster and is becoming an increasingly common source of income shocks … in health human capital. I use Census data to estimate the effects of early childhood exposure to drought on later …-random variation in local droughts experienced by different cohorts in different districts, I find that drought exposure in infancy …
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drought, the most damaging natural disaster for crops and food-company cash flows. We show that prolonged drought in a country …, measured by the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) from climate studies, forecasts both declines in profitability ratios and … poor stock returns for food companies in that country. A portfolio short food stocks of countries in drought and long those …
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