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's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an … inter-temporal trade-off between current household income and future potential earnings. Financial inclusion may mitigate or … exacerbate the human capital impacts of rainfall shocks depending on whether it relaxes or constrains household budgets. The data …
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How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and...
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comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … climate data as well as household-level livestock losses. Exposure to weather shocks during preschool age (as opposed to …This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our …
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a theoretical framework where household belief-updating about the climate rationalizes household learning about the …
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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so …, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that … matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with household information over the period 2008 to 2016. We find that an …
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This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia … channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. In households where the head has more experience in herding, children … lived in districts in which the shock was particularly harsh are significantly shorter two years after the shock. The …
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We estimate the effects of temperature on human capital production in India. We show that high temperatures reduce both …
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- 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household … and household controls are included. We find that exposure to changing climate in utero and in the month of conception … extent of pasture, rain-fed and irrigated lands, on the propensity of household out-migration, and on mother's age at first …
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How does subjective well-being depend on the fate of others when a covariate shock strikes? In this paper, we address … this question by providing novel evidence on the impact of shock-induced damages experienced by individuals and their … analysis builds on a detailed household panel survey, which we complement with aggregated climate data and historic livestock …
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labor markets act as a transmission mechanism of the negative effects of weather shocks on agricultural workers, who react …
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