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storms, heavy rain, and floods. Concern about future climate change on the household level has a substantial negative impact …This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning … future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households …
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the household. We find that, relative to households in the control group, adoption of LPG stoves reduced charcoal … deforestation of 0.04 ha/household/year. However, providing subsidies for stove purchases resulted in a larger reduction in charcoal ….03 ha/household/year respectively. A social cost-benefit analysis suggests that the cost of both programs is far below the …
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This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children … 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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investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana …Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to …
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’ adaptation behavior in response to indoor heat stress during summer months. Providing detailed information of household …-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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a theoretical framework where household belief-updating about the climate rationalizes household learning about the … differentially more likely to adopt central air conditioning units than those less exposed, controlling for historical climate. Using … climate that cannot be explained by myopia or alternative channels …
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This paper explores the impact of extreme weather exposures on the financial outcomes of low-income households. Using a … temperature days-both hot and cold-lead to surges in demand for payday loans. An increase in the number of days with extreme heat …
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on household saving, whereby growth may be correlated with climate volatility. This study conducts a dynamic panel … results show that in rural areas, temperature volatility is positively correlated with the household saving rate, but that the …Many studies have investigated the correlation between climate change and economic growth. However, this study focuses …
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