weather shocks to ascertain the extent to which the investment strategies of risk-exposed households "pay off" by buffering … between households' perceived exposure to uninsured risk, measured as past exposure to deviations in average rainfall levels … the depletion of assets. We also consider the interaction between past weather-risk exposure and the actual realization of …

rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged 15-21 years provide unilateral insurance to their origin … exposed to rainfall shocks with low levels of correlation with respect to shocks occurring at origin. …

We study the direct impacts that long-run experiences of climate change have on individual risk preferences. Using … panel surveys from Indonesia and Mexico (total N = 25,000), we link within-person changes in elicited risk preferences to … background climate risk, we find that in both settings increases in the experienced means of temperature and precipitation cause …

specifications. Then, we quantify the spatial basis risk for each household using past rainfall data at the plot level. Exploiting …Basis risk––an imperfect correlation between an aggregate index and idiosyncratic damage––is a major impediment to … direct measurement. This study uses household panel data from rural Zambia to estimate the impact of spatial basis risk on …

comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock …This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our … significantly reduces the likelihood of being enrolled in mandatory school two to three years after the shock. Similarly, it …

This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia … channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. In households where the head has more experience in herding, children … lived in districts in which the shock was particularly harsh are significantly shorter two years after the shock. The …

provide evidence on the beneficial effects of index insurance after a weather shock in a developing economy. … a catastrophic weather disaster occurs. Our focus is on the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in Mongolia. We … before the shock recover faster from shock-induced asset losses than comparable non-insured households. We find a significant …

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the … and mitigation channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. Wealthier households and households led by a more … effects by exploiting exogenous variation in the intensity of the shock across time and space. Results reveal that the shock …

observations from Senegalese fishermen. Fishing income is volatile and income risk depends on weather conditions and on … technologies employed. To measure risktaking, we use an incentivized investment task. To measure background risk, we consider long …Decisions involving risk are usually taken in the presence of other insurable or non-insurable risks, the latter type …