Dowry deaths: Response to weather variability in India
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Dowry Deaths: Response to Weather Variability in India.
We examine the effect of rainfall shocks on dowry deaths using data from 583 Indian districts for 2002-2007. We find that a one standard deviation decline in annual rainfall from the local mean increases reported dowry deaths by 7.8 percent. Wet shocks have no apparent effect. We examine patterns of other crimes to investigate whether an increase in general unrest during economic downturns expl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Development Economics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0304-3878
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.09.001