We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...

We estimate the general-equilibrium labor market effects of a large-scale randomized intervention in which we designed and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both cultivators and to agricultural wage laborers allows us to...

In der gegenwärtigen Ausgestaltung hat die Abgabe auf Niederschlagswasser, die neben der Abgabe auf Schmutzwasser sowie für Kleineinleitungen im Abwasserabgabengesetz geregelt ist, durch lenkungsferne Bemessungsgrundlagen und weitreichende landesrechtliche Ausnahmeregelungen kaum nennenswerte...

Estimation of missing precipitation records is one of the most important tasks in hydro-logical and environmental study. The efficiency of hydrological and environmental models is sub-ject to the completeness of precipitation data. This study compared some basic soft computing techniques,...