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Climate change and political participation : evidence from India
Amirapu, Amrit; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2022
Can democratic politics provide a means for responding to climate change? We explore this question by studying the effects of extreme temperatures on Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. We find that areas exposed to extreme temperatures experience an increase in voter turnout and a change in...
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Climate change and political participation : evidence from India
Amirapu, Amrit; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2022
We study the effects of extreme temperature shocks on political participation using data from Indian elections between 2009 and 2017. Taking advantage of localized, high-frequency data on land surface temperatures, we find that areas with greater cumulative exposure to extreme temperatures...
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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
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Climate Change and (a Culture of) Cooperation in the World's Most Agricultural Countries
Benati, Giacomo; Guerriero, Carmine - 2021
Overwhelming evidence suggests that a “culture of cooperation,” which is the implicit reward from cooperating in any economic activity, represents one of the most successful humanly devised social structures. Yet, our understanding of its determinants and impact is still limited. To clarify...
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Climate Change in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan : Trends and Adaptation Policies Conducive to Innovation
Khakimov, Parviz - 2022
Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are among the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change with weak adaptive capacities. This analysis summarises adaptation technologies for agricultural, water, transport and health sectors, as well as disaster risks management technologies,...
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Climate change, temperature extremes, and conflict : evidence from mainland Southeast Asia
Gasser, André Tashi; Lanz, Bruno - 2023
We exploit 0.5°×0.5° raster data for mainland Southeast Asia from 2010 to 2020 to document a non-linear relationship between extreme temperature days and conflict. We show that the occurrence of conflict events increases with extreme maximum temperature days, whereas days with extreme minimum...
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Class and Climate Change in Post-Reform India
Michael, Kavya; Vakulabharanam, Vamsicharan - 2016
carbon space sharing in India by focusing on the distribution of emissions across different Indian social groups after India … key to sustainability. We establish using household consumption surveys that the elites in India are major polluters both …
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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India
Verma, Saumya - 2020
How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India's major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839358
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Temperature and Human Capital in India
Garg, Teevrat - 2020
We estimate the effects of temperature on human capital production in India. We show that high temperatures reduce both …
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Climate Change and Labor Reallocation : Evidence from Six Decades of the Indian Census
Liu, Maggie Y.; Shamdasani, Yogita; Taraz, Vis - 2021
How do rising temperatures affect long-term labor reallocation in developing economies? In this paper, we examine how increases in temperature impact structural transformation and urbanization within Indian districts between 1951 and 2011. We find that rising temperatures are associated with...
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