This website uses cookies.

By clicking the "Accept" button or continuing to browse our site, you agree to first-party and session-only cookies being stored on your device to enhance site navigation and analyze site performance and traffic. For more information on our use of cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.

The AEA website will be offline for brief scheduled maintenance after 6:00pm (EDT) this evening.
  1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. American Economic Review
  4. May 2010
  5. Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era

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)
Download Full Text PDF

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