In this paper, we study the causal relationship between rainfall shock and incidence of domestic violence using the … 33% less likely to face domestic violence in a wet shock district than in a district affected by drought. This result … supports the notion that domestic violence is largely associated with negative household income shocks and is robust to …

households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high …

find a strong negative impact of drought on the decision of youth to migrate in the year after the adverse weather shock …. Household assets and access to savings institutions attenuate this impact, consistent with the notion that wealth and savings … cushion the blow of the shock on the resources required to finance migration. We also find that households that report more …

households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high …