German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 4

24 May 2024, 17:00

Leibniz Universität Hannover

66. Shouldering the Weight of Climate Change: Intra-household Resource Allocation after Rainfall Shocks

Ulugbek Aminjonov (Bordeaux School of Economics)

24/05/2024, 17:00

Poverty and Inequality

Parallel Session

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...

109. Solar technology as a shock-coping device: Evidence from rural Tanzania

Friederike Lenel (PIK; Uni Göttingen)

24/05/2024, 17:30

Agricultural Economics

Parallel Session

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...