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 exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …

poverty likelihood and poverty gap, an increase in the probability of employment and an increase in wages. Our results provide … the old system. We also provide evidence of higher wages for select participants. We do not find any consistent evidence …

We study a simple savings scheme that allows workers to defer receipt of part of their wages for three months at zero …

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 exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …

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 exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …

income shocks to consumption. Log-earnings are the sum of a general Markovian persistent component and a transitory …. Consumption is modeled as an age-dependent nonlinear function of assets and the two earnings components. We establish the … nonparametric identification of the nonlinear earnings process and the consumption policy rule. Exploiting the enhanced consumption …