This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and infant sex ratio in India investigates how this changes when households have access to government-provided employment opportunities outside of agriculture. When a household’s preference for sons coincides with adverse shocks, previous research shows that tend disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal postnat...

Triggered by frequent high temperatures and scarce precipitation, droughts are a recurrent phenomenon in the Mediterranean Basin, causing significant impacts on forests. We analyzed effects of drought intensity, duration, seasonality tree growth investigating relationship between Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) at different time scales tree-ring width (TRW) three pine...