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In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i.e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but...
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affects local spillovers in case of a weather shock. Second, we use road infrastructure as a proxy for overall connectivity to …Extreme weather may give rise to the relocation of economic activity towards nearby locations. But how are the economic … effects of weather events transmitted between locations? And, which role does the interconnection of small economic units play …
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We investigate the role that climatic change has played in the pattern of urbanization in sub-Saharan African countries compared to the rest of the developing world. To this end we assemble a cross-country panel data set that allows us to estimate the determinants of urbanization. The results of...
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This paper contributes to the climate-economy literature by analysing the role of weather patterns in influencing the … and their interactions with local weather conditions, taking into account the heterogeneous and cumulative effects of … weather patterns on economic growth and the asymmetry and nonlinearity in the global influence of ENSO on economic activity …
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their impacts on maize productivity under weather shocks in Tanzania. The specific practices analyzed are: maize … combination with other practices, under average weather conditions as well as under rainfall and temperature shocks. The shocks we …
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Given the extreme dependence of agriculture on weather conditions, this paper analyses the effect of climatic … particular, we study the response of N-fertilizer application to abnormal weather conditions, while accounting for other relevant … are also properly defined, revealing interesting results on the impact of both GDP and weather conditions on fertilizer …
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This study proposes a nonlinear cointegrating regression model based on the well-known energy balance climate model. Specifically, I investigate the nonlinear cointegrating regression of the mean of temperature anomaly distributions on total radiative forcing using estimated spatial...
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