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We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local … as a positive contemporaneous shock to local economic conditions in Indonesia …
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effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian … current adult outcomes from the 2000 wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey. Higher early-life rainfall has large positive …
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Dynamic adjustments could be a useful strategy for mitigating the costs of acute environmental shocks when timing is not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United...
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Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) use rainfall variation as an instrument to show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that...
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. Drawing on twelve waves of longitudinal survey data collected in rural Central Java, Indonesia, we establish that height …
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cognition for respondents in two developing countries: China and Indonesia, both with very low educated elderly populations …Schooling levels are monotonically and significantly related to higher levels of cognition for all three of the … expenditure (pce) is positively associated with cognition, more so in China. Other SES characteristics such as height, are also …
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The relationship between completed education and adult cognition is investigated using data from the Indonesia Family … background factors, we document substantively large, significant impacts of education on cognition in models with sibling fixed …
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Knowledge producers conducting research on a particular set of questions may respond to supply and demand shocks by shifting resources to a different set of questions. Cognitive mobility measures the transition from one location to another in idea space. We examine the cognitive mobility flows...
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We examine the generalizability of internally valid estimates of causal effects in a fixed population over time when that population is subject to aggregate shocks. This temporal external validity is shown to depend upon the distribution of the aggregate shocks and the interaction between these...
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evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 … impacts of major shocks on child health and human capital in Indonesia is nothing short of stunning …
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