The increased occurrence of extreme weather conditions leading to drought is a key development challenge. This paper … drought declarations and mayoral elections in Brazil. While accounting for current and historical rainfall patterns, the paper … drought declarations prior to the municipal election; and ii) receiving a drought declaration reinforces the electoral …

We examine the long-term impacts of drought on local labor markets in Brazil. Us- ing rainfall data going back over a … century, we build contemporaneous and historical drought indices for more than 3,000 local areas, and examine them in … that increased drought frequency in the previous decade reduces local value added, employment and wages in the agricultural …