comprehensive list of weather shocks from the Philippines, a country prone to natural disasters and a major exporter of labor. We … on international migration contingent on agriculture exists. Third, non-environmental factors such as economic …The growing literature on environmental migration presents conflicting results. While some find that natural disasters …

We examine the link between extreme weather events and national aid and transfers at the municipal level in the … Philippines between 1992 and 2015. Using local-level data of public income and expenditures, local precipitation, poverty …

endogeneity of income, this paper analyzes the effect of weather events on welfare in the Philippines. It finds that, one … desirability of greater forms of investment in resilience against weather events and climate change. At the household level …, poverty is a binding constraint to good investment in resilience against weather events and the government has to continue its …

There is growing recognition that natural disasters and severe weather-related events pose risks that can potentially … severe weather conditions have an impact on the financial performance of smaller banking units. The paper first constructs a … regional quarterly rainfall damage index (RDI) based on data from weather stations across the country. A regional branch …