This paper investigates the effect of rainfall shocks on the allocation of household con- sumption among children, women, and men in Malawi. The identification relies on the spatial-temporal variation in the occurrence of rainfall shocks in four agricultural growing seasons between 2010 and 2019. I estimate a collective model of household to retrieve individual resource shares and their...
Solar home systems, a technology that is by now widely used to access electricity by households not connected to the grid, can also provide a strategy for income diversification.
We demonstrate this based on unique high-frequency loan repayment and electricity usage data of about 20,000 Tanzanian farmers over four years. Relying on machine learning based classification, we predict the...
