Poverty and Witch Killing

By Edward Miguel. 2005

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature (2014, unknown): “Miguel (2005) documents that extreme rainfall events increase the murder of “witches” (typically elderly women) in Tanzania, hypothesizing that negative income shocks induced by rainfall lead households to seek to remove or kill relatively unproductive family members. Oster (2004) finds that cold we”
Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, background): “In particular, Miguel (2005) finds that murder rates of old women in Tanzania increase when rainfallinduced negative income shocks hit, and Sekhri and Storeygard (2014) document an increase in intimate partner violence in India after droughts.”
The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa (2017, unknown): “, and Miguel, E. (2013). Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict.”
Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies (2006, unknown): “Evidence that household resort to costly consumption-smoothing mechanisms (e.g. Frankenberg et al., 1999; Dercon, 2002; Miguel, 2005; Chetty and Looney, in press) also suggests that γ could potentially be high for many households.”
Club Goods and Group Identity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence during the Indonesian Financial Crisis (2010, background): “Parents with additional means and who are more concerned with bettering their children’s religious education prefer to send them to pesantren (Muhaimin 2006). Under the direction of a Muslim scholar, pesantren are attended by young people who are taught a detailed understanding of the Koran, the Ara”
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict (2013, background): “…Hostility Y Y Y – (27) Larrick et al. 2011†‡‖ 1952–2009 USA Day Site Temp Violent retaliation Y Y Y – (36) Mares 2013 1990–2009 USA Month Municipality Temp Violent crime Y Y Y – (39) Miguel 2005†‡ 1992–2002 Tanzania Annual Municipality Rain Murder Y Y N N (40) Mehlum et al. 2006 1835–1861 Germany…”