distinguish household specific wealth levels and two types of shocks: correlated (weather) shocks and idiosyncratic (wealth …

Hoogeveen, van der Klaauw, and van Lomwel focus on the timing of marriages of women in rural Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean … originates. They distinguish household-specific wealth levels and two types of shocks - correlated (weather) shocks and …

(endogamy, age and education difference between spouses). Weather shocks provide an exogenous source of variation of household … income through agricultural production. Data on weather shocks are merged with individual and household level data from the …

(endogamy, age and education difference between spouses). Weather shocks provide an exogenous source of variation of household … income through agricultural production. Data on weather shocks are merged with individual and household level data from the …

may well be that livestock are held as a form of liquid savings to, among other things, help bounce back from a weather … tend to be employed in the event of a weather disaster, second, given that multiple strategies can be chosen, in what … far the most frequently reported choice would be to sell livestock. This is rather striking, since asset-based theories …

may well be that livestock are held as a form of liquid savings to, among other things, help bounce back from a weather … tend to be employed in the event of a weather disaster, second, given that multiple strategies can be chosen, in what … far the most frequently reported choice would be to sell livestock. This is rather striking, since asset-based theories …

Weather conditions are an important determinant of agricultural factor input, particularly labor allocation. The … availability of weather forecasts can therefore lead to efficiency gains in the form of cost decreases and productivity increases …. We test the practical feasibility, the uptake, and the effect of providing basic weather forecasts in the rainy season on …