Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era

2010/05/01 by Robin Burgess, Dave Donaldson · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Social Sciences · Health Professions · Psychology · #Agricultural risk and resilience #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Global Health Care Issues #Openness to experience #Famine #Economics #Development economics #Economic history #History #Psychology

paper · doi:10.1257/aer.100.2.449

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Abstract

Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era by Robin Burgess and Dave Donaldson. Published in volume 100, issue 2, pages 449-53 of American Economic Review, May 2010

Citations

• Analysis of Covariance with Qualitative Data
• Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
• The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961

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