Rainfall and conflict: A cautionary tale

By Heather Sarsons. 2015

181 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments (2020, background): “Droughts can also exacerbate conflicts (Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti, 2004), even through channels other than income (Sarsons, 2015).”
• Food security and conflict: Empirical challenges and future opportunities for research and policy making on food security and conflict (2019, unknown): “As more and more of such pathways are explored, widely used techniques such as using local rainfall as an instrumental variable for local economic conditions in rural areas (Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti, 2004; Sarsons, 2015) have become increasingly less credible.”