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nation that is frequently affected by extreme weather events. Our results show that negative rainfall deviations and cyclones … insurance, which reduces their ability to cope with negative weather shocks. …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i.e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but...
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We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international …) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for … the specification of weather anomalies that maximizes the goodness of fit of our empirical model. We then use this best …
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droughts, floods and cyclones. We examine the impact of weather events on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young … savings, and access to credit and insurance which limits their ability to cope with negative weather shocks. We observe both … contemporaneous and lagged effects of the weather shocks which are of a similar magnitude. …
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We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international …) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for … the specification of weather anomalies that maximizes the goodness of fit of our empirical model. We then use this best …
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leads to 1.58 percentage points decline in economic growth while temperature shock reduces economic growth by 3 ….22 percentage points. A 1 percent change or shock in rainfall leads to a 6.7 percent change in economic growth. The impact of …
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