کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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7361552 | 1478860 | 2017 | 17 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Water scarcity and rioting: Disaggregated evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
کمبود آب و شورش: شواهد جمع آوری شده از کشورهای جنوب صحرای آفریقا
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی
اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی
اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
It is often purported that unusually dry weather conditions provoke small-scale social conflict-riots-by intensifying the competition for water. The present paper explores this hypothesis, using data from Sub-Saharan Africa. We rely on monthly data at the cell level (0.5Ã0.5 degrees), an approach that is tailored to the short-lived and local nature of the phenomenon. Using a drought index to proxy for weather shocks, we find that a one-standard-deviation fall in the index (signaling drier conditions) raises the likelihood of riots in a given cell and month by 8.3%. We further observe that the effect of unusually dry weather conditions is substantially larger in cells with a lower availability of water resources (such as rivers and lakes), a finding that supports the significance of the competition-for-water mechanism.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management - Volume 86, November 2017, Pages 193-209
Journal: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management - Volume 86, November 2017, Pages 193-209
نویسندگان
Christian Almer, Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti, Manuel Oechslin,