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Preparing for genocide: Community work in Rwanda
Bonnier, Evelina; Poulsen, Jonas; Rogall, Thorsten; … - 2015
How do political elites prepare the civilian population for participation in violent conflict? We empirically investigate this question using village-level data from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Every Saturday before 1994, Rwandan villagers had to meet to work on community infrastructure, a...
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Farmer suicides in India and the weather god
Banik, Nilanjan; Stevens, Philip - 2016
. Considering agricultural output and rainfall data from four different states in India we find evidence in favor of association … between the cyclical component of agricultural output and rainfall data. Understanding this linkage is important from the …
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Preparing for Genocide: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Bonnier, Evelina; Poulsen, Jonas; Rogall, Thorsten; … - 2016
-- rainfall on all other weekdays -- yields no statistically significant results. Moreover, the result is entirely driven by areas …
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Rainfall shocks and risk aversion: Evidence from Southeast Asia
Liebenehm, Sabine; Degener, Nele; Strobl, Eric - 2018
rainfall data for rural Thailand and Vietnam. Our econometric analysis shows that temporal variability in risk attitudes is … driven by rainfall shocks. Both severe shortages and excesses appear to increase individuals’ risk aversion. Contrary to … composition of non-farmers and by farmers’ ability to mitigate rainfall shocks. Our findings have potentially important …
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Will urban migrants formally insure their rural relatives? Family networks and rainfall index insurance in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were offered, at the prevailing market price, a rainfall index insurance …. We argue that rainfall index insurance can complement informal risk-sharing networks by mitigating problems of …
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Analysis of inflation dynamics in Nigeria (1981 - 2015)
Bawa, Sani; Abdullahi, Ismaila S.; Ibrahim, Adamu - In: CBN Journal of Applied Statistics 07 (2016) 1, pp. 255-276
degree of inertia. The econometric results showed that past inflation and average rainfall appeared to have been the main …
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Is geographic diversification sufficient to limit contract grower risk?
Geyser, Mariette; Louw, Andre; Botha, L. - 2009
Lending and financial institutions have looked for a variety of ways to expand their portfolios into agriculture, but because of the risks associated with lending to farmers who lack traditional forms of collateral, they face price and yield risks, causing these inroads to be limited....
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On measuring quality of a probabilistic commodity forecast for a system that incorporates seasonal climate forecasts
Potgieter, AB; Everingham, YL; Hammer, GL - 2003
Regional commodity forecasts are being used increasingly in agricultural industries to enhance their risk management and decision-making processes. These commodity forecasts are probabilistic in nature and are often integrated with a seasonal climate forecast system. The climate forecast system...
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Implications of seasonal climate forecasts on world wheat trade: a stochastic, dynamic analysis
Hill, HSJ; Mjelde, JW; Love, HA; Rubas, DJ; Fuller, SW; … - 2004
Improvements in seasonal climate forecasts have potential economic implications for international agriculture. A stochastic, dynamic simulation model of the international wheat economy is developed to estimate the potential effects of seasonal climate forecasts for various countries' wheat...
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Soil aridification, precipitations, and infant health: Evidence from Africa
Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2023
underweight at birth. In addition, we show how the aridity measure in this study reduces the effect of rainfall on child wellbeing …
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