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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Miller, Grant - 2013
This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459698
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Global Financial Structure and Climate Change
Whalley, John - 2009
, primarily in the area of insurance, but also in the diversification of asset holdings. We suggest in this paper that, with …, and towards a focus on insurance arrangements and the diversification of risks associated with climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463760
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Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting : Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module
Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
interest to researchers - in our case, time allocations across market work, household labor, and leisure. Using survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814446
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Fifteen Years On : Household Incomes in South Africa
Leibbrandt, Murray - 2011
This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461996
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Barriers to Electrification for "Under Grid" Households in Rural Kenya
Lee, Kenneth - 2014
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to invest in rural electrification, decisions about how to extend electricity access are being made in the absence of rigorous evidence. Using a novel dataset of 20,000 geo-tagged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458340
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Up in Smoke : The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460626
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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms : Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2012
household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460873
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Breaking Boundaries : Lower Tail Dependence Can Triple the Economic Value of Index Insurance for Rural Households
Estefania-Salazar, Enrique; Carter, Michael R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite its promise to help low-wealth households manage climate risk, index insurance remains hampered by downside basis risk, meaning that an insured party suffers a loss, but receives no payment because the insurance index fails to register a loss. While efforts to reduce basis risk focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576647
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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields : The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
Schlenker, Wolfram - 2008
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464847
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Food Policy in a Warming World
Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576567