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Why Does It Always Rain on Me? A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Precipitation in Austria

Umlauf, Nikolaus; Mayr, Georg; Messner, Jakob; Zeileis, … - 2011

It is popular belief that the weather is bad more frequently on weekends than on other days of the week and this is often perceived to be associated with an increased chance of rain. In fact, the meteorological literature does report some evidence for such human-induced weekly cycles although...

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Preparing for genocide: Community work in Rwanda

Bonnier, Evelina; Poulsen, Jonas; Rogall, Thorsten; … - 2015

How do political elites prepare the civilian population for participation in violent conflict? We empirically investigate this question using village-level data from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Every Saturday before 1994, Rwandan villagers had to meet to work on community infrastructure, a...

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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2013

identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in …

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Climate Change, Rice Crops and Violence. Evidence from Indonesia

Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014

This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...

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Farmer suicides in India and the weather god

Banik, Nilanjan; Stevens, Philip - 2016

. Considering agricultural output and rainfall data from four different states in India we find evidence in favor of association … between the cyclical component of agricultural output and rainfall data. Understanding this linkage is important from the …

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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty: Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania

Abiona, Olukorede; Foureaux Koppensteiner, Martin - 2018

idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …

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The Impact of Household Shocks on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Tanzania

Abiona, Olukorede; Foureaux Koppensteiner, Martin - 2018

microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households … negative rainfall shock from the long-term mean increases the incidence by about 13.1 per cent compared to the baseline. We …

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Climate, urbanization, and conflict: The effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder

Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019

In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...

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Preparing for Genocide: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Rwanda

Bonnier, Evelina; Poulsen, Jonas; Rogall, Thorsten; … - 2016

-- rainfall on all other weekdays -- yields no statistically significant results. Moreover, the result is entirely driven by areas …

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Rainfall shocks and risk aversion: Evidence from Southeast Asia

Liebenehm, Sabine; Degener, Nele; Strobl, Eric - 2018

rainfall data for rural Thailand and Vietnam. Our econometric analysis shows that temporal variability in risk attitudes is … driven by rainfall shocks. Both severe shortages and excesses appear to increase individuals’ risk aversion. Contrary to … composition of non-farmers and by farmers’ ability to mitigate rainfall shocks. Our findings have potentially important …

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