that children and mothers report a lower likelihood of work in drought years, and children are more likely to attend school …

. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …

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 …

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 …

, measured by the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) from climate studies, forecasts both declines in profitability ratios and … drought, the most damaging natural disaster for crops and food-company cash flows. We show that prolonged drought in a country … poor stock returns for food companies in that country. A portfolio short food stocks of countries in drought and long those …