TY - BOOK ID - 138553101 TI - Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum : Technical Paper 2. Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods, and Urbanization - Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad AU - Jedwab, Remi. AU - Haslop, Federico. AU - Masaki, Takaaki. AU - Rodriguez-Castelan, Carlos. PY - 2021 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Climate Change Impacts KW - Drought Management KW - Environment KW - Hydrology KW - Natural Disasters KW - Natural Resources Management KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Urbanization KW - Water Resources UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138553101 AB - There is a vast economic literature studying the effects of climate change on long-run growth, migration, urbanization, and human capital, among several other outcomes. The paper is structured as follows: Section 3.2 dives into some of the physical characteristics of Lake Chad and its water sources. Section 3.3 introduces our novel data. Section 3.4 presents the hypothesis and empirical strategy behind our analysis. Sections 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 present results on total population, cities and roads, respectively. Finally, section 3.8 concludes. ER -