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Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era

  • Robin Burgess
  • Dave Donaldson
American Economic Review
vol. 100, no. 2, May 2010
(pp. 449-53)
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Citation

Burgess, Robin, and Dave Donaldson. 2010. "Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era." American Economic Review, 100 (2): 449-53. DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.2.449

JEL Classification

  • N55 Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: Asia including Middle East
  • O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
  • Q15 Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
  • Q54 Climate; Natural Disasters; Global Warming