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While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known … investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration … response to weather shocks. We find that Fonden decreases migration in response to heavy rainfall, hurricanes and droughts …
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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 …
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endogeneity of income, this paper analyzes the effect of weather events on welfare in the Philippines. It finds that, one … desirability of greater forms of investment in resilience against weather events and climate change. At the household level …, poverty is a binding constraint to good investment in resilience against weather events and the government has to continue its …
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is partially because reverse causation is unlikely (the state of the economy has no effect on weather) and weather is … partially off of their expectations of weather. With this assumption, and additionally assuming that these policymakers and … inhabitants use past weather to predict future weather, I can use historical data on weather and GDP growth to determine …
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