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DIW Discussion Papers 1534 / 2015
This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our focus is on two extremely severe winters that caused mass livestock mortality. We use household panel data with comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock significantly reduces the likelihood of being ...
2015| Valeria Groppo, Kati Krähnert
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DIW Discussion Papers 1515 / 2015
This paper investigates the impact of indemnity payments from index insurance on the asset recovery of households after a catastrophic weather disaster occurs. Our focus is on the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in Mongolia. We analyze the effect of IBLI indemnity payments after a once-in-50-year winter disaster struck Mongolia over 2009/10. The database for our analysis is three waves of a ...
2015| Veronika Bertram-Huemmer, Kati Kraehnert
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DIW Discussion Papers 1403 / 2014
We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the extremely harsh winter – locally referred to as dzud – of 2009/10, which caused more than 23 percent of the national livestock to perish. This resulted in a food insecurity situation for many Mongolian households. Our analysis identifies causal effects by exploiting exogenous variation ...
2014| Valeria Groppo, Kati Schindler
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DIW Roundup 69 / 2015
Jahrzehntelang haben Unter- und Mangelernährung auf der globalen entwicklungspolitischen Agenda wenig Beachtung erfahren. Oft waren nur extreme Hungersnöte in den Schlagzeilen zu finden. Dies hat sich mit der Verabschiedung der Millennium Entwicklungsziele im Jahr 2000 geändert: Gleich das erste der acht Ziele sieht die Halbierung des Anteils der hungerleidenden Menschen in der Bevölkerung bis 2015 ...
2015| Katharina Lehmann-Uschner
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DIW Roundup 65 / 2015
Individual health is not only determined by genetic factors, but also by negative or positive events during the life course. For example, children exposed to natural disasters or violent conflicts are more likely to have poor health as adults. Positiveexternal factors, such as nutritional programs, will, instead, improve individual health in the long-term. In turn, health can directly affect education ...
2015| Valeria Groppo
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DIW Roundup 20 / 2014
Der Klimawandel wird wahrscheinlich in vielen Regionen zu einer Zunahme von Unwetterkatastrophen wie Dürren oder Überschwemmungen führen. Davon sind vor allem Entwicklungsländer betroffen, da sie oft in den besonders anfälligen Klimazonen liegen und die Landwirtschaft dort eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Index-basierte Versicherungsprodukte gelten als großer Hoffnungsträger, um landwirtschaftliche Haushalte ...
2014| Veronika Bertram-Hümmer
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This article investigates the impact of indemnity payments from index insurance on the asset recovery of households following a catastrophic weather disaster. Our focus is on the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in Mongolia. We analyze the effect of IBLI indemnity payments after a once-in-50-year winter disaster struck Mongolia over the 2009/10 winter. The analysis is based on three waves of ...
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics
100 (2018), 1, S. 145-171
| Veronika Bertram-Hümmer, Kati Krähnert
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This article investigates the role of food self-provisioning for the intake of nutrients of households in Mongolia. We analyse nutritional outcomes within and across urban wage employees, rural households with small herds, and pastoralists with large herds. Food self-provisioning significantly affects dietary quality and quantity. Farming food crops improves the nutrient intake. In contrast, animal ...
In:
Journal of Development Studies
53 (2017) 8, S. 1303–1322
| Katharina Lehmann-Uschner, Kati Krähnert
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper provides new evidence on the long- and medium-term impact of extreme weather events on education. Our focus is on Mongolia, where two extremely severe winters caused mass livestock mortality. We use household panel data with information on households' pre-shock location, combined with historic district-level livestock census data and climate data. Our econometric strategy exploits exogenous ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
30 (2017), 2, S. 433-472
| Valeria Groppo, Kati Krähnert
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather event on child height in Mongolia. While previous studies mostly focus on rainfall shocks in tropical or dry climate areas, our focus is on the extremely harsh winter that hit Mongolia in 2009–10. The severe winter—locally referred to as a dzud—caused catastrophic damage and resulted in the death of 10.3 million livestock. Our analysis identifies ...
In:
World Development
86 (2016), S. 59-78
| Valeria Groppo, Kati Krähnert