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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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agriculture-dependent rural households. Using a detailed panel of rural households in an agricultural region of China, we find …
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investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to … trend in all regions in the north of Ghana while temperature oscillates, with higher amounts of rainfall and moderate …
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This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning …. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of the heads of the households is only significant for heat waves; not for … storms, heavy rain, and floods. Concern about future climate change on the household level has a substantial negative impact …
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adaptation behavior in response to indoor heat stress during summer months. Providing detailed information of household … cient to trigger investments in adaptation measures: While the propensity to adapt is heterogeneous across socio …-economic groups, an increase of one degree Celsius in average summer temperature is associated with a rise of 2.3 percentage points in …
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these “induced adopters” to predict take-up, I show that induced adopters have a significant increase in their summer energy … a theoretical framework where household belief-updating about the climate rationalizes household learning about the …
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