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We analyze the impact of climate events on migration among a cohort of young adults residing in rural Madagascar. We … find a strong negative impact of drought on the decision of youth to migrate in the year after the adverse weather shock … cushion the blow of the shock on the resources required to finance migration. We also find that households that report more …
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In communities highly dependent on rain fed agriculture for their livelihoods, the common occurrence of climatic shocks such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of...
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Climate change is an existential threat to the world economy like no other, with complex, evolving and nonlinear … dynamics that remain a source of great uncertainty. There is a bourgeoning literature on the economic impact of climate change …, but research on how climate change affects sovereign risks is limited. Building on our previous research focusing on the …
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