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In utero shocks and health at birth : the distorting effect of fetal losses

Hajdu, Tamás - 2023

Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study outlines a conceptual framework and shows that the results of the standard empirical approach are biased if (i) the exposure changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health...

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The impact of extreme weather events on child health : evidence from Mongolia ; conference paper

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014 - Draft

This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia … lived in districts in which the shock was particularly harsh are significantly shorter two years after the shock. The … negative effect of the shock is strongest for children from herding households. Moreover, we explore the role of mitigation …

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Fertility Response to Climate Shocks

Dessy, Sylvain - 2019

from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …

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Climate shocks and teenage fertility

Dessy, Sylvain Eloi; Marchetta, Francesca; Pongou, Roland; … - 2020

Madagascar. Exploiting exogenous within-district year-to-year variation in rainfall deficits in combination with individual fixed …

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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022

We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...

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Climate Shocks and Human Mobility : Evidence from Nicaragua

Carvajal, Liliana - 2010

Exposure and adaptive capacity determine vulnerability to climate disasters and the chosen strategies to cope with their consequences. Often, migration is an option in the set of coping strategies. In this paper, we look for empirical evidence linking exposure to climate disasters and adaptive...

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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022

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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022

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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Falco, Salvatore; B. Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022

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Sitting in the same boat : subjective well-being and social comparison after an extreme weather event

Fluhrer, Svenja; Schindler, Kati - 2021

How does subjective well-being depend on the fate of others when a covariate shock strikes? In this paper, we address … this question by providing novel evidence on the impact of shock-induced damages experienced by individuals and their …-5 years after the event occurred. The negative shock impact is amplified by observing peers doing economically worse …

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