Search Results - subject:"Climate Variability"

Optimal Expectations and the Welfare Cost of Climate Variability

Alem, Yonas; Colmer, Jonathan - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

. This paper addresses these issues and shows that increased climate variability (a proxy for future income uncertainty … indicates that a one standard deviation (7%) increase in climate variability has an equivalent effect on life satisfaction to a …

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Climate Variability, Child Labour and Schooling: Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margin

Colmer, Jonathan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive … increased climate variability increases the number of hours spent on farming activities while reducing the number of hours spent … climate variability on enrolment decisions or educational outcomes, suggesting that households may spread the burden of labour …

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Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions and Adaptation to Climate Variability and Climate Change in Doba District, West Hararghe, Ethiopia

Legesse, Belaineh; Ayele, Yared; Bewket, Woldeamlak - In: Asian Journal of Empirical Research 3 (2013) 3, pp. 251-265

This study assessed farmers’ perceptions and adaptation to climate variability and change in Doba District, West … Hararghe, Ethiopia. The study also investigated determinant factors influencing adaptation strategies to climate variability … households to climate variability and change. The study finds that there are nearly unified perceptions of climate variability …

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Optimum fisheries management under climate variability: Evidence from artisanal marine fishing in Ghana

Akpalu, Wisdom; Dasmani, Isaac; Normanyo, Ametefee K. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

In most coastal developing countries, the artisanal fisheries sector is managed as a common pool resource. As a result, such fisheries are overcapitalized and overfished. In Ghana, in addition to anthropogenic factors, there is evidence of rising coastal

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Climate variability, child labour and schooling : evidence on the intensive and extensive margin

Colmer, Jonathan - 2013 - First draft: June 2012

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Simulating crop-water production functions using crop growth models to support water policy assessments

Foster, Timothy; Brozović, N. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 152 (2018), pp. 9-21

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The effects of climate variability on psychological well-being in India

Pailler, Sharon; Tsaneva, Magda - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 106 (2018), pp. 15-26

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Climate variability and vulnerability to poverty in Nicaragua

Herrera, Carlos; Ruben, Ruerd; Dijkstra, Anneke Geske - In: Journal of environmental economics and policy 7 (2018) 3, pp. 324-344

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Impact of climate variability including drought on the residual value of irrigation water across the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Qureshi, M. E.; Ahmad, M. D.; Whitten, S. M.; Reeson, A.; … - In: Water economics and policy 4 (2018) 1, pp. 1-25

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The impact of climate variability on drought management : evidence from Japanese river basins

Tembata, Kaori; Takeuchi, Kenji - In: Climate change economics 9 (2018) 4, pp. 1-20

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