environmental crises in North America in the 20th Century. Severe drought and wind erosion hit the Great Plains in 1930 and lasted …

Drought is Africa's most prevalent natural disaster and is becoming an increasingly common source of income shocks … in health human capital. I use Census data to estimate the effects of early childhood exposure to drought on later …-random variation in local droughts experienced by different cohorts in different districts, I find that drought exposure in infancy …

Drought is Africa's primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper … documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in … these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in South African Census data with cross-sectional and temporal drought …

that children and mothers report a lower likelihood of work in drought years, and children are more likely to attend school …

historians, but relatively little empirical work has been done. We push this literature forward by using modern drought indexes … relationship between these indexes and sensitive indicators of financial stress. The drought indexes were devised by climate …

Rather than allowing water prices to reflect scarcity rents during periods of drought-induced excess demand, policy … unique panel data on residential end-uses of water, we examine the welfare implications of typical drought policies. Using …

the Peasant Fasci is significantly affected by an exceptionally severe drought in 1893, and using information on rainfall …

In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for … cents per gallon of water saved on average. Moreover, informing consumers about the drought severity increases the WTP for …