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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Weather Shocks"”.
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Three essays on weather shocks, nutrition and forests
Climate-related shocks, such as droughts and floods, can have particularly harmful effects for poor rural households in developing countries. In this dissertation, I determine how forests affect a household's ability to cope with shocks, estimate how agricultural input use changes after shocks, and …
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Do weather shocks affect banks’ loan portfolio? Evidence from Colombia
La materialización de los riesgos asociados con el clima es un tema que, recientemente, ha cobrado relevancia en tanto que afecta directamente a los sectores económicos. El sector bancario colombiano no es una excepción, ya que está expuesto a riesgos financieros relacionados con el clima. Al …
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Agricultural practices, price shocks, and weather shocks- impact on household food security: Empirical evidence from Malawi
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Social safety nets in presence of weather shocks: three essays on development economics from village economies in Kenya
… poor households mitigate the effects of weather shocks, reduce poverty and vulnerability, and increase consumption of healthy food. In achieving this, we undertake an in-depth analysis supported by econometric techniques to analyze the effect of social safety net program (in this case …
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Essays on the Economics of Climate Change and Geoengineering
… a general equilibrium theoretical framework with weather shocks that demonstrates how local, micro-level weather shocks impact macroeconomic growth. Using the theoretical findings, I construct macroeconomic impacts of weather shocks across the spatial distribution and industrial composition of …
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Essays on Adapting to Extreme Shocks: Local Market Correlations and Global Agricultural Trade Responses to Weather and Yield Variability
… Candor and Cofield reaching 0.76 during negative shocks, indicating asymmetric price-setting behavior. These findings highlight the reliance on shared infrastructure, emphasizing the need for coordinated risk management, supply chain resilience, and targeted insurance policies. The study also …
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Essays on Smallholder Behavior in Response to Resource Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
… smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: (i) weather shocks and (ii) limited land access for agricultural production. The first chapter looks at how weather shocks affect millet production and millet market price seasonality in Niger. In this paper, we use district-level longitudinal …
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Essays in labor and human capital investment in development economics
… data set together with the exogeneity of weather shocks as identification strategies, I estimated the impact of drought on household water consumption and the cost of obtaining water, including time spent fetching water in Uganda. In Chapter 2, I assess the labor supply and welfare impacts …
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Agricultural productivity and climate shocks in developing countries
… to reduce and temper the effects of these shocks by investing in infrastructure, in the development of markets and favoring the adoption of new production practices. The overall goal of this thesis is to understand how weather shocks affect agricultural productivity and how adaptation and …
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The relationship between crude oil and natural gas spot prices and its stability over time
… through exogenous variables related to weather and supply. Once identified, the relationship is clarified more efficiently through the implementation of a conditional error correction model. The model is then utilized to simulate the effects of weather shocks, seasonality, supply …
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Agricultural Technology Adoption and Adaptation under Climate Change: Microevidence from Niger
… in in the Sahel are exposed to a highly variable weather over time, and to their limited adaptive capacity, therefore often use livestock as income generator, export earnings, and as insurance against weather risk. There is an increasing demand for livestock products, which increase pressure on …
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Three essays on machine learning and food security
… three chapters studying the interactions between weather shocks, food prices, food policy and food security. Food insecurity has resurfaced to be a vital issue in the past two decades in sub-Saharan Africa. Income and price shocks that endanger food security could from different aspects, including …
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Microfinance and Mobile phones: an economic analysis of the perceptions, management and measurement of environmental risk in rural Kenya
… of nearly 200,000 adoptions of a pioneering weather index insurance that was bundled with a hybrid seed product and available over several seasons. The first empirical chapter econometrically explores the role of basis risk in the continued uptake of the bundled index insurance product. The …
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Evaluating Adaptive Capacity to Climatic Extremes in Rural Zambia
… can strengthen their adaptive capacity to weather extremes. After reviewing the literature on how climatic extremes impact welfare in the first chapter, the second chapter uses a systematic review of randomized and non-randomized studies to evaluate the effectiveness of policy interventions …
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Three Essays on the Interactions between Agriculture and the Environment
… environmental impacts (in the first essay), and weather shocks and their impacts on rural households in developing countries (in the second and third essays). The first essay proposes a multimarket equilibrium approach to estimating the consumer surplus for environmentally-friendly technologies …
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Impact of Climate Change Risks on Housing Resilience: A Case Study of Khayelitsha, South Africa
… this study is to contribute to research on how weather shocks specifically floods and heatwaves exacerbated by climate change interact with housing infrastructure to produce patterns of risk and loss in poor communities. Using Khayelitsha as a case study, the research provides localised insights …
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ESSAYS ON A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY WITH CROSS-BORDER LABOR MOBILITY
… the responses of optimal fiscal policy to shocks in either the home or the host country. Then, the empirical exercises are performed to determine the motivations behind remittances. More specifically, we test whether remittances come from existing migrants or result from migration when …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Land Use, Environmental Value, and Public Spending
… of Mongolian livestock markets after severe weather shocks, and the role that a livestock insurance program may play in smoothing shocks. During severe Mongolian winters, livestock sales increase and prices fall as credit-constrained nomadic herders look to make necessary investments to …
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Essays in Environmental and Supply Chain Topics in Finance
… firms’ production decisions in response to shocks. The third essay studies the real and financial impacts of regulatory enforcement in an environmental setting. The first chapter (joint with Victor Orestes and Thiago Christiano Silva) shows that firms experience large increases in sales and …
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Social norms, markets and land use in a developing country context
… of the land market to adjust rental rates to weather shocks. Finally, in chapter four, I analyze the effects of stabilizing perennial cash crop prices when the prices of staple food crops also cultivated by small farmers remain highly variable. Specifically, I test whether maize price …
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