identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in …

. Considering agricultural output and rainfall data from four different states in India we find evidence in favor of association … between the cyclical component of agricultural output and rainfall data. Understanding this linkage is important from the …

idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …

microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households … negative rainfall shock from the long-term mean increases the incidence by about 13.1 per cent compared to the baseline. We …

-- rainfall on all other weekdays -- yields no statistically significant results. Moreover, the result is entirely driven by areas …

rainfall data for rural Thailand and Vietnam. Our econometric analysis shows that temporal variability in risk attitudes is … driven by rainfall shocks. Both severe shortages and excesses appear to increase individuals’ risk aversion. Contrary to … composition of non-farmers and by farmers’ ability to mitigate rainfall shocks. Our findings have potentially important …

Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were offered, at the prevailing market price, a rainfall index insurance …. We argue that rainfall index insurance can complement informal risk-sharing networks by mitigating problems of …