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Using the Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel (2015) framework, we examine the nonlinear response effect of economic growth to historic temperature and precipitation fluctuations. We confirm that aside from the significant effect of rising temperature on agricultural production, industrial production and...
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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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With the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change, assessing the potential …-off extreme weather event can have persistent effects on household-level asset growth. Our focus is on the effect of a once-in-50 …-year winter disaster on post-shock livestock accumulation among pastoralists in Mongolia. Building on a unique household …
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vulnerable than richer ones. A meta-analysis of the impact of weather shocks reveals that studies, which relate economic growth … implied by studies of the impact of climate change is close to the growth impact estimated as a function of weather shocks …
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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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