Weather index insurance is considered a promising international climate policy instrument that can help households adapt better to climate change. This is especially true in developing countries where households often suffer severely from the consequences of extreme weather events. This report...

Indexbasierte Wetterversicherungen gelten in der internationalen Klimapolitik als ein vielversprechendes Instrument, um Haushalte bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel zu unterstützen. Das trifft insbesondere auf Entwicklungsländer zu, in denen Haushalte oft besonders stark unter den Folgen...

This study examines the impact of extreme weather events on violence against children inflicted by adult household members. Our focus is on Mongolia, where winter disasters cause high livestock mortality that exert economic stress on pastoralist households. The analysis builds on three...

This article examines the effects of extreme weather events on internal migration in Mongolia. Our focus is on dzuds, extremely harsh winters characterized by very cold temperature, snowfall anomalies, and/or storms causing very high livestock mortality. We exploit exogenous variation in the...