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We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Using rainfall data going back over a … century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in … that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural …
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Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely affect growth prospects globally. Current robust estimates of the effects of typhoons and droughts point to both short- and long-term declines in national incomes compared to...
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, we find that women's workdays fall by 11% more than men's when a drought occurs, driven by former's lack of …
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We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a … century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in … that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328261
We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a … century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in … that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010728959
the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations …
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on a panel of 153 countries over the period of 1960 to 2002 and employing a truly exogenous drought indicator derived …
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drought data for the last 40 years. We find evidence of a higher frequency of power plants outages as a consequence of … capacity-adjusted drought index. The results are used to assess the monetary loss of power plant outages due to heatwaves and …
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analysis is based on extensive datasets comprising temperature and drought data for the last 40 years. We find evidence of a … wholesale electricity price and price volatility and develop a capacity-adjusted drought index. The results are used to assess …
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drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …
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