Sekhri, Sheetal; Storeygard, Adam - In: Journal of Development Economics 111 (2014) C, pp. 212-223
We examine the effect of rainfall shocks on dowry deaths using data from 583 Indian districts for 2002–2007. We find that a one standard deviation decline in annual rainfall from the local mean increases reported dowry deaths by 7.8%. Wet shocks have no apparent effect. We examine patterns of...