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The long-run and intergenerational effects of early-life rainfall shocks on human capital : longitudinal evidence from the Philippines

Pagaduan, Jesson A. - 2026

Less or more rain, forever pain? This paper examines the long-run and intergenerational effects of early-life exposure to droughts and wet shocks on human capital outcomes over the life course. Combining a unique three-decade longitudinal survey of pregnant mothers in Metropolitan Cebu, the...

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The effect of climate risk on firm cash holdings : evidence from the euro area

Fernandes, Filipa Da Silva; Papadimitriou, Fotios I. - 2025

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The agricultural and economic value of water

Brown, Christina Estela; Tanner, Sophia J.; Hrozencik, … - 2025

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Estimating the effects and seasonal dynamics of Malawi's 2015-16 drought and humanitarian transfers on household food insecurity and child malnutrition

Kenamu, Edwin; Colen, Liesbeth - 2025

In 2015, Southern Africa experienced a drought that affected approximately 30 million people across seven countries. Using a nationally representative household panel survey data set and a remotely sensed measure of drought intensity during the 2015-16 farming season, we rigorously estimate the...

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Drought, livestock holding and milk production : a difference-in-differences analysis

Abebe, Meseret B.; Alem, Yonas - 2025

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Drought, livestock holding, and milk production : a difference-in-differences analysis

Abebe, Meseret B.; Alem, Yonas - 2024

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Droughts in Africa : adult malnutrition and occupational change during recurring and first-time droughts

Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2025 - Original version: April 2023, this version: November 2025

How costly are droughts to adults' nutrition in Africa? Do people adapt to recurring droughts? We measure severe droughts using detailed satellite-based index of greening observed bi-monthly on a relatively high-resolution 0.083 degree grid between 1982 and 2015, that captures persistent and...

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Drought and migration : evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic

Karymshakov, Kamalbek; Aseinov, Dastan; Azhgaliyeva, Dina - 2024

This study empirically examines the effect of the drought of 2021 on migration in the Kyrgyz Republic. A panel dataset was created using nationally representative household survey data for the period 2019-2022 with approximately 5,000 households in each year and integrated with the satellite...

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The political economy of bread and circuses : weather shocks and classic Maya monument construction

Rubio-Ramos, Melissa; Isendahl, Christian; Olsson, Ola - 2024

In early states, government elites provided both productivity-enhancing infrastructure, such as irrigation systems, as well as seemingly non-productive monumental architecture like temples and pyramids. The nature of this "bread-and-circuses"-tradeoff is not well understood. In this paper, we...

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The political economy of bread and circuses : weather shocks and classic Maya monument construction

Rubio-Ramos, Melissa; Isendahl, Christian; Olsson, Ola - 2024

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The political economy of bread and circuses : weather shocks and classic Maya monument construction

Rubio-Ramos, Melissa; Isendahl, Christian; Olsson, Ola - 2024

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Fostering justice across the Rio Conventions : emerging levers for cooperation and coordination

Aleksandrova, Mariya; Banerjee, Aparajita; Cunha, … - 2024

The ever-deepening planetary crisis stipulates the urgency of bringing the Rio Conventions - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - closer together to...

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Job displacement and reallocation failure : evidence from climate shocks in Morocco

Alfani, Federica; Molini, Vasco; Pallante, Giacomo; … - 2024

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Farm-level responses to weather trends : a structural model

Wimmer, Stefan; Stetter, Christian; Schmitt, Jonas; … - 2024

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Aspirations and weather shocks : evidence from rural Zambia

Parlasca, Martin Christoph; Martini, Christina A.; … - 2024

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Promoting livelihood diversification among rural farming households in Kenya : what role does farm forestry farmer field school play?

Sato, Ichiro; Kubo, Hideyuki; Ateka, Josiah Mwangi; … - 2025

This study investigated the impacts of a farmer field school (FFS) programme focused on farm forestry in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) in Kenya from 2017 to 2020. Specifically, we examined whether this agricultural extension approach enhanced livelihood diversification and reduced...

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Promoting livelihood diversification among rural farming households in Kenya : what role does farm forestry farmer field school play?

Sato, Ichiro; Kubo, Hideyuki; Ateka, Josiah Mwangi; … - 2024

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Empirically estimated impacts of climate change on global crop production via increasing precipitation-evapotranspiration extremes

Raitzer, David A.; Drouard, Joeffrey - 2024

Although agriculture is often considered vulnerable to climate change, recent gridded crop growth modelling intercomparison exercises have found that staple crop yields will be modestly affected by global warming. However, those crop growth models also do not fully reflect impacts of increasing...

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The stocking impact and financial-climate risk of the Livestock Forage Disaster Program

Hrozencik, R. Aaron; Perez-Quesada, Gabriela; Bocinsky, Kyle - 2024

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Heatwaves, coldwaves, floods, and droughts : the short-term impact of extreme weather events on economic activity

Andersson, Malin; Battistini, Niccolò; Bobasu, Alina - 2026

This paper examines the short-term macroeconomic and sectoral effects of extreme weather events in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. We construct novel indicators of extreme temperature and precipitation based on percentile thresholds of long-run historical distributions and estimate their...

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Drought, kinship, and conflict in West Africa

Livorno, Chiara; Tiberti, Luca - 2026

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Weather shocks, recall error and health

Herr, Annika; Karimi, Soschia; Wichert, Julian - 2026

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The role of droughts and religious cleavages in pastoralist conflict in Nigeria

Koopmans, Ruud; Meierrieks, Daniel; Tuki, Daniel - 2026

This article studies the role of environmental and religious factors in the occurrence of pastoralist conflict in Nigeria using panel data at the 0.5 x 0.5° grid cell level between 1997 and 2020. The empirical analysis provides robust evidence that the occurrence of droughts does not raise the...

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Assessing climate risks in Uruguay's banks using NGFS short-term scenarios

Barón, Andrea; Dassatti Camors, Cecilia; Lavagna, Gabriela - 2026

The agricultural sector is a key driver of the Uruguayan economy, making it particularly vulnerable to hydrometeorological events. This paper assesses the impact of severe physical risk events - combining droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires - on the capital position of Uruguayan banks, using the...

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Household resilience during climate shocks in rural Benin : the role of gender social norms in child school dropout

Dedehouanou, Fidèle Ange; Menoua, Marthe Vihoutou … - 2026

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How uncertainty shapes electricity storage decisions : dispatch policies and capacity portfolios under renewable drought risk

Keske, Cem; Steffen, Bjarne; Parsons, John E. - 2026

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Drought-induced macroeconomic effects on China : a time-frequency domain analysis

Chen, Jiana - 2026

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The art of sharing resources : how to distribute water during a drought period

Cano-Berlanga, Sebastian; Solís-Baltodano, María-José; … - 2023

Water scarcity is a growing problem in many regions worldwide. According to the United Nations, around one-fifth of the world's population lives in areas where water is scarce. Another one-quarter of the world's population has to face water supply cuts, mainly because this proportion of the...

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The economics of drought : a review of impacts and costs

Fleming, David; Whitten, Stuart; Bonnett, Graham D. - 2023

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Does the geographical footprint of Ethiopia's flagship social protection programme align with climatic and conflict risks?

Dakini Tenzing, Janna; Conway, Declan - 2023

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The bitter taste of Brazil's temporary import ban on Robusta coffee

Otgun, Hanifi; Beghin, John C.; Maximiliano, Fernando - 2023 - This draft: November 13, 2023

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Impacts of drought on loan repayment

Breeden, Joseph L. - 2023

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Impacts of drought on loan repayment

Breeden, Joseph L. - 2023

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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa

Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2023

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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa

Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021

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Droughts and malnutrition in Africa

Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023

How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite-based vegetation index observed bi-monthly for 0.08° grids between 1982 and 2015. Across 32 African countries, conditional on individual characteristics, timing relative to growing...

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Droughts and Malnutrition in Africa

Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023

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Drought and social conflict in rural Zimbabwe : does the burden fall on women and girls?

Chigusiwa, Lloyd; Kembo, George; Kairiza, Terrence - 2023

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The development of the arid tropics : lessons for economic history

Roy, Tirthankar - 2023

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Sustaining peace in Ethiopia: The end of the war in the North should be the prelude to fundamental governance reforms

Kurtz, Gerrit - 2023

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Sustaining peace in Ethiopia : the end of the war in the North should be the prelude to fundamental governance reforms

Kurtz, Gerrit - 2023

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Romania Drought Risk Assessment

2025

Over the past 50 years, the number of drought events in Romania has increased, with their impact on the population, economy, and environment being intensified by climate change. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the hazard and current and future drought risks in Romania. It...

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Drought declarations and voting outcomes : evidence from Tunisia

Hashish, Nourhan - 2025

Using a novel dataset in a difference-in-differences framework, I study the political implications of the change in policies protecting drought-impacted communities in Tunisia in 3088 districts. In 2016, the Tunisian government had drastically reduced support to farmers affected by droughts. I...

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Semiárido, escassez hídrica e articulação de políticas públicas

Castro, César Nunes de - 2025

Due to local climatic characteristics, water availability in the semi-arid region, a large territory that covers more than one thousand and four hundred municipalities in Brazil, is comparatively low. Initiatives by the federal public authorities to alleviate the consequences of low availability...

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Status quo der Bewässerung in Deutschland

Bernhardt, Jacob Jeff; Stupak, Nataliya; Neuenfeldt, … - 2025

Der Klimawandel verändert die Anbaubedingungen der Landwirtschaft in Deutschland. Spätestens seit den Dürrejahren 2018-2022 ist deutlich geworden, dass die klimatischen Veränderungen weitreichende Auswirkungen auf die Wasserverfügbarkeit und -nutzung bedeuten. Diese Entwicklung führt lokal...

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The Macroeconomic Impact of Droughts in Uruguay : A General Equilibrium Analysis Using the Soil Moisture Deficit Index

François Clevy, Jean - 2025

Uruguay recently confronted the impact of a once-in-a-century severe drought, which affected key agricultural areas, and caused significant direct losses to the agricultural sector, especially for soybean production and cattle farming - important exports in Uruguay's trade matrix. From October...

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Estimating the short-term effects and seasonal dynamics of Malawi’s 2015/16 drought on household food insecurity and child malnutrition

Kenamu, Edwin; Colen, Liesbeth - 2025

In 2015, Southern Africa experienced a drought that affected approximately 30 million people across seven countries. Using a nationally representative household panel survey dataset and a remotely sensed measure of drought intensity during the 2015/16 farming season, we rigorously estimate the...

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Drought Risk and Resilience Assessment Methodology

2025

The Drought Risk and Resilience Assessment (DRRA) offers a structured methodology for evaluating drought risk and enhancing resilience. The objective is to transition from reactive to proactive drought management, reducing the impacts of droughts. When applied, a DRRA can support task teams and...

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Droughts and domestic violence : measuring the gender-climate nexus

Aguilar-Gómez, Sandra; Salazar-Díaz, Andrea - 2025

Every year, 245 million women are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Climate change is hypothesized to exacerbate this figure through its disruptive impact on household livelihoods, among other channels. However, little causal evidence exists on this aspect of the climate-gender nexus,...

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Preferences for drought risk adaptation support in Kenya : evidence from a discrete choice experiment and three decision-making theories

Schrieks, Teun; Botzen, W. J. Wouter; Haer, Toon; … - 2025

Promoting household-level adaptation measures is an important part of climate change adaptation policies to reduce vulnerability to droughts for (agro-)pastoral communities in sub-Saharan Africa. To develop effective supportive policies, it is important to get a better understanding of the needs...

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Floods, droughts, and environmental circumscription in early state development : the case of ancient Egypt

Mayoral, Laura; Olsson, Ola - 2025

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Adaptation through diversification : crop diversity and the resilience of U.S. agricultural yields to weather shocks

Ignoto, Benjamin; Wu, Shuaiqi; Lanz, Bruno; Monier, Erwan - 2025

We combine 2008-2023 county-level yield data with 30-meter crop classification imagery to test whether crop diversity mitigates yield losses from weather shocks. Diversity is measured with the exponential Shannon index, capturing county-level species richness and evenness as the effective number...

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The Earlier the Better? Impact of Shock-responsive Monetary Transfers for Drought in Niger

2025

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Enhancing drought resilience : evaluating the livelihood outcomes of a solar-powered water system in Hanzila Village, Southern Zambia

Mweemba, Carol; Amarnath, Giriraj; Koppen, B. C. P. van - 2025

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Drought in South-Eastern Europe : October 2025 : GDO analytical report

2025

Drought conditions have affected large parts of south-eastern Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, and the Black Sea since early 2025, with a partial and temporary recovery in late spring and another worsening in early summer, with concern for the coming months. Above-average temperatures in...

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Extreme weather exposure and public support for climate adaptation finance in vulnerable developing countries : evidence from the European Union

Heckenhahn, Jonas - 2025

Climate change impacts are intensifying worldwide, with the harshest consequences borne by vulnerable developing countries that face high exposure and limited capacity to adapt. Although international agreements commit wealthy donor countries to provide adaptation finance, actual transfers...

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Extreme weather exposure and public support for climate adaptation finance in vulnerable developing countries: Evidence from the European Union

Heckenhahn, Jonas - 2025

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Analysing the impact of climate change on economic growth in the SADC region : a synthetic control approach

Gwatidzo, Tendai - 2025

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Balancing efficiency and inequality in a non-linear multi-regional water allocation optimization model

Ortuzar, Iban; Serrano, Ana; Xabadia, Angels; Brouwer, Roy - 2025

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