We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so …, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that … matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with household information over the period 2008 to 2016. We find that an …

food production. In regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture is the major source of household livelihoods …, shocks in weather patterns affect farmers' expectations of farm yield and hence the decision to adopt farm inputs such as … this study, I explore the relationship between weather shocks and the intensity of inputs use at the plot level using large …

income shocks. The empirical strategy identifies households’ responses to random weather shocks and estimates their … heterogeneous impact by the level of rebelocracy. Using a household panel in four conflict regions in Colombia, the estimation … to cope with negative weather shocks than those living in regions with non-state armed actor presence but with limited or …

investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … impacts household welfare, agricultural income, and farm revenue, and recommends inter alia households' diversification of …

This paper investigates the impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour using a model in which the household …: agricultural shocks as an income shock and the death of a parent or relatives as a non-income shock. We also investigate if access … to credits and household assets act as buffers against transitory shocks. Our results indicate significant effects of …

household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male … reveal that gender of the household head matters in adaptation to climate-induced shocks. Specific differences were found …

scores, especially for the latter ages, and household heterogeneities. On the policy front, the results suggest that the …

effect of changing weather patterns over a few years on migration as a diversification strategy. Using a novel household … investigate whether households send a migrant after experiencing weather shocks, but the literature lacks evidence on migration as … an ex-ante measure. In this paper, we disentangle the direct effect of weather shocks on income from agriculture from the …

the depletion of assets. We also consider the interaction between past weather-risk exposure and the actual realization of … weather shocks to ascertain the extent to which the investment strategies of risk-exposed households "pay off" by buffering …