Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international security. Our paper contributes to the emerging micro-level strand of the literature on the link between local variations in weather shocks and conflict by focusing on a pixel-level...

While agricultural production statistics are reported on a geopolitical - often national - basis we often need to know the status of production or productivity within specific sub-regions, watersheds, or agro-ecological zones. Such re-aggregations are typically made using expert judgments or...

We use a multiyear multiarm randomized controlled trial implemented among 1053 smallholders in Kenya to evaluate ex-ante investment and ex-post productivity and welfare benefits of risk-contingent credit (RCC), comparing it with traditional credit (TC). We rely on local average treatment effects...

Economic statistics are frequently produced at an administrative level such as the sub-national division. However, these measures may not adequately capture the local variation in the economic activities that is useful for analyzing local economic development patterns and the exposure to natural...