This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural … productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected … at birth and in the early years. Additionally, the aridity measure in this study captured a large share of the effect on …

There is a large empirical literature trying to quantify the potentially adverse affects of climate change on the risk … violence. A major shortcoming of this approach is that it conflates climate variability with climate change, while also …, this study exploits changes in local climate over a longer time period; using differences in the average standardised …