annethro/remittances

Climate variability and remittances in sub-Saharan Africa "Monetary transfers may be related to patterning in climate events, not just single extreme events" Anne Pisor, Danielle Touma, J. Hope Guin, James Holland Jones In press, Climatic Change, Monetary transfers may be r… Data and code maintained by Anne Pisor and Danielle Touma ## Reproducing our results To reproduce paper results, download the contents of the Models folder. ## Reproducing our data wrangling To create the analysis data from scratch, do the following: - Reproduce the social data pipeline -- including e.g., wealth index, household size -- by downloading the Social Data Processing folder. - Reproduce the environmental data pipeline -- including e.g., frequency, NDVI mean, etc. -- by downloading the Environmental Data Processing folder. - Merge the data by downloading the Merge folder. ## Raw data sources - Household data are sourced from the World Bank; for example, find the Burkina Faso data at: microdata.worldbank.org - SPEI data both for the globe, and subset for Africa, can be directly downloaded here: catalogue.ceda.ac.uk - Original daily NDVI files can be downloaded from: ncei.noaa.gov