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Do remittances improve the ability of households to adapt to global warming? We try to answer this question by studying … the behaviours of households in Mexico, a country that experiences a large and stable flow of remittances. Nationally …-conditioning, whose adoption is on the rise. We inquire whether and to what extent remittances are used to adopt and operate air …
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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Do extreme weather events such as droughts or floods lead to migration away from the areas affected by these events? This chapter aims to provide an answer to that question for Morocco using a new nationally representative household survey implemented in 2009-10. The data suggest that around one...
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and competition for limited employment opportunities. The obligation to send remittances also puts pressure on migrants …
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This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our focus is on two extremely severe winters that caused mass livestock mortality. We use household panel data with comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic...
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This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia. We employ a diff-in-diff strategy to identify the effect of an extremely harsh winter in 2010, which caused the death of about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results...
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undermine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), official development assistance (ODA) and migrants’ remittances on … economic expansion. Based on neoclassical growth framework, the theoretical model indicates that FDI, ODA, and remittances …
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Remittances’ effect on a household’s health outcome (e.g. Infant mortality) is ambiguous, but the impact on health … remittances into a stress test to see whether it survives the adverse impact of climate change. Using a natural experiment of … rainfall-driven remittances, we provide an experimental measure for remittances’ effect on the health expenditure among rural …
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