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-day and future flood and drought hazard maps. The paper defines and calculates a ?poverty exposure bias? and finds support … finds some evidence of regional patterns: in particular, many countries in Africa exhibit a positive poverty exposure bias …
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based on randomized assignment, and analyze how impacts vary by exposure to exogenous drought shocks. The results show that … both complementary interventions provide full protection against drought shocks two years after the end of the intervention …
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Using data on Israeli closures inside the West Bank, this paper provides new evidence on the labor market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. To identify the effects, the analysis exploits the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous to local labor...
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This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle-income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' incomes. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability between natives and immigrants, and the increased demand for native workers as immigrants reduce the cost of production and output expands. The literature so far has focused on the...
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In many regions of the world, the persistent, and growing, proportion of young people who are currently not in employment, education, or training is of global concern. This is no less true of Morocco: about 30 percent of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 24 are currently not in...
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Understanding the magnitude and importance of income shocks, such as drought or conflict, in causing and perpetuating …. This paper uses micro-data from two waves of the Somali High Frequency Survey to assess the impact of the severe drought … quantify the effects of the drought, relying on spatial variation in drought exposure and the timing of data collection, which …
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Although weather shocks are a major source of income fluctuation, most of the world's poor lack insurance coverage against them. Absence of formal insurance contributes to poverty traps, as investment decisions are conflicted with risk management ones: risk-averse farmers tend to underinvest and...
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voters reward the incumbent presidential party for delivering drought relief compensation. The paper finds that receiving …
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Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that...
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