-year winter disaster on post-shock livestock accumulation among pastoralists in Mongolia. Building on a unique household …With the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change, assessing the potential …-off extreme weather event can have persistent effects on household-level asset growth. Our focus is on the effect of a once-in-50 …

a catastrophic weather disaster occurs. Our focus is on the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in Mongolia. We … provide evidence on the beneficial effects of index insurance after a weather shock in a developing economy. … analyze the effect of IBLI indemnity payments after a once-in-50-year winter disaster struck Mongolia over 2009/10. The …

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the … and mitigation channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. Wealthier households and households led by a more … effects by exploiting exogenous variation in the intensity of the shock across time and space. Results reveal that the shock …

This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia … channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. In households where the head has more experience in herding, children … lived in districts in which the shock was particularly harsh are significantly shorter two years after the shock. The …

comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock …This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our … significantly reduces the likelihood of being enrolled in mandatory school two to three years after the shock. Similarly, it …

How does subjective well-being depend on the fate of others when a covariate shock strikes? In this paper, we address … this question by providing novel evidence on the impact of shock-induced damages experienced by individuals and their … winter disaster. Our identification strategy exploits the quasi-experimental nature of the extreme event. The empirical …

Households in developing countries are exposed to increasingly extreme weather events that could endanger their … show that extreme weather events have long-term negative consequences on households and underscore the need for systematic …

relatively understudied (Sukhtankar, 2017). We test whether NREGA modulates the impact of adverse weather shocks on agricultural … yields. Our empirical strategy exploits the staggered rollout of NREGA and random fluctuations in weather. Using nationwide … influence agricultural productivity and how they interact with weather shocks …

Weather index insurance is considered a promising international climate policy instrument that can help households … the consequences of extreme weather events. This report is one of the first to evaluate the impact of a globally … context. Two years after the disaster, their herds were almost a third larger than those of uninsured households. In many …

This paper provides novel evidence on how risk exposure shapes the demand for index-based weather insurance. The focus … weather events that cause high livestock mortality. Using a two-way fixed effect model and country-wide district-level data … weather conditions occurring in the months preceding the end of the insurance sales period. The effect is neither driven by …