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The Origins of Cognitive Skills and Non-Cognitive Skills : The Long-Term Effect of In-Utero Rainfall Shocks in India

Chang, Grace; Favara, Marta; Novella, Rafael - 2021

Skills are an important predictor of labour, education, and wellbeing outcomes. Understanding the origins of skills formation is important for reducing future inequalities. This paper analyses the effect of shocks in-utero on human capital outcomes in childhood and adolescence in India....

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Climate Change Impacts in Drought and Flood Affected Areas : Case Studies in India

World Bank - 2012

The aim of this study is to assist the government in this endeavor by focusing on selected priorities. The overarching objective of this report is to promote the mainstreaming and integration of climate related risks in India's development policies and processes, where this is appropriate. The...

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How does credit supply react to a natural disaster? : evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Nguyen, Linh; Wilson, John O. S. - In: The European journal of finance 26 (2020) 7/8, pp. 802-819

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Chapter 4 Dam Break Flood Mapping Analysis and Impact Assessment

Muda, Rahsidi Sabri; Khidzir, Ainul Bahiah Mohd; Amin, … - 2021

Dams are constructed for many purposes such as for power generation, irrigation, water supply and flood control … buildings and infrastructures due to dam break event. ArcGIS application and output from two-dimensional flood modelling have … been used as an integrated approach to analyse the impact due to dam break flood, by creating flood severity grid analysis …

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Health shocks and the intergenerational transmission of inequality : evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2015

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in children thereby reducing their future earnings, and...