This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of … southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In …

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of … southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In …

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind poverty traps, building on evidence of nonlinear wealth dynamics among … a poor pastoralist population, the Boran from southern Ethiopia. In particular, it explores the roles of adverse weather …