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channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. In households where the head has more experience in herding, children …This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia … about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results indicate that cohorts of children exposed to the 2010 winter and who …
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Anticipatory humanitarian assistance is a novel approach to aid in the context of weather disasters, drawing on …, investments, or consumption across the study population. No heterogenous effects are found for different levels of disaster …
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This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our … comprehensive retrospective information on households' historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … children from herding households. Results are robust to measuring shock intensity with district-level livestock mortality and …
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While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known … investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration … response to weather shocks. We find that Fonden decreases migration in response to heavy rainfall, hurricanes and droughts …
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disaster fund (Fonden). While lower than average precipitations increase undocumented migration, especially from the most …
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Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national … emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate …-change-induced component of these costs. We use EEA to aggregate the global economic damage from extreme weather events that is attributable to …
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Extreme weather events can disrupt agricultural markets, but agricultural trade can help address subsequent food … between trade and food security in an environment where extreme weather events create uncertainty. The analysis suggests that …
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This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events … adaptation by directly providing public goods to manage disaster risks or by facilitating private agents' adaptation responses …
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Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national … emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate …-change-induced component of these costs. We use EEA to aggregate the global economic damage from extreme weather events that is attributable to …
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