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Climate change and political participation : evidence from India
Amirapu, Amrit; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2022
We study the effects of extreme temperature shocks on political participation using data from Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. Taking advantage of localized, high-frequency data on land surface temperatures, we find that areas with greater cumulative exposure to extreme temperatures...
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Climate change and political participation : evidence from India
Amirapu, Amrit; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2022
Can democratic politics provide a means for responding to climate change? We explore this question by studying the effects of extreme temperatures on Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. We find that areas exposed to extreme temperatures experience an increase in voter turnout and a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013439985
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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177019
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Climate Change and Political Participation: Evidence from India
Amirapu, Amrit; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2022
We study the effects of extreme temperature shocks on political participation using data from Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. Taking advantage of localized, high-frequency data on land surface temperatures, we find that areas with greater cumulative exposure to extreme temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296508
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Climate change and political participation: Evidence from India
Amirapu, Amrit; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2022
Can democratic politics provide a means for responding to climate change? We explore this question by studying the effects of extreme temperatures on Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. We find that areas exposed to extreme temperatures experience an increase in voter turnout and a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480606
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Climate change vulnerability in agriculture sector : indexing and mapping of four southern Indian states
Sridevi, G.; Jyotishi, Amalendu; Mahapatra, Sushanta; … - 2014
India. Among India's population of more than one billion people, about 68% are directly or indirectly involved in the …
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The economic impacts of temperature on industrial productivity : evidence from Indian manufacturing
Sudarshan, Anant; Tewari, Meenu - 2014
through their impact on worker productivity. We utilize a multi-year panel of manufacturing plants in India, as well as daily …
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The political economy of development and climate policy-prospects and challenges for an emission trading scheme as development and climate policy tool
Freytag, Andreas; Menter, Matthias; Montag, Jan Hauke; … - 2023
Economic development and climate change constitute two of today's major international policy challenges. While development cooperation has long been on the political agenda, addressing global climate change has gained policymakers' attention more recently. Transfers for financing single projects...
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Food security beyond global warming : economic and policy perspectives from Uganda
Perelli, Chiara; Branca, Giacomo - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 78 (2023) 1, pp. 17-32
Climate change has severe and pervasive impacts on natural systems and affects many aspects of human life. Increasing temperatures and alterations in the regimes of precipitations are adding pressure to global agricultural systems, which are already struggling to respond to expanding global...
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How do natural disasters affect services trade?
Xu, Ankai; Kouwoaye, Amèvi Rocard - 2019 - Manuscript date: 6 December 2019
This paper is the first in the literature to examine the impact of natural disasters on trade in services. We measure the magnitude of natural disasters using two distinct sets of variables and quantify the effect of natural disasters on trade in services using a structural gravity model. We...
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