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This paper examines whether and how rainfall shocks affect tariff setting in the agricultural sector. In a model of strategic trade policy, the authors show that the impact of a negative rainfall shock on optimal import tariffs is generally ambiguous, depending on the weight placed by the...
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merges extensive firm-level financial data with detailed grid-level weather data. The analysis reveals a strong negative …
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Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in … developing countries. Weather index insurance has emerged as a possible tool for overcoming these challenges. This paper provides … evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a pioneering, large-scale insurance program in Mexico. The focus of this …
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Recent economic research documents a range of adverse welfare consequences from extreme heat stress, including health, labor productivity, and direct consumption disutility impacts. Without rapid adaptation, climate change will increase the burden of heat stress experienced by much of the...
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substitutions in sector production in response to weather anomalies that accentuate suboptimal climatic conditions for cropping. By …
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This paper summarizes the methods and findings of the hydrological assessment component of the project studying likely impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in Africa. The first phase of the study used a version of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model called WatBal (Water...
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The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather … variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables used to predict economic outcomes and serve …
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effect of extreme weather events on agriculture, much less is known about the effect on businesses. Using geocoded firm …
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To estimate the impact of weather on rural income changes over time, this study combines data from the panel subsample … of the latest Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2010, 2012, and 2014 and gridded weather data from the Climate … substantial inter- and intra-annual weather variation, as measured by annual, seasonal, abnormal, and extreme weather conditions …
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shocks and domestic weather shocks. Overall, it provides evidence that the intermittent imposition of export bans in Tanzania …
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