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Egg-Timer: Climate Adaptation and Risk Management Location: D-107 Session Chair: Philippe Kabore, Université du Québec à Rimouski | |
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Do Reelection Incentives Shape Climate Adaptation? Evidence from Water Well Drilling in Brazil’s Semiarid Region University of Oxford, United Kingdom and The World Bank Managing drought risk is critical to mitigating the negative effects of water scarcity on well-being. This paper presents causal evidence that politicians with reelection motives respond to drought risk by drilling more water wells than those without. I exploit close elections in a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effects of reelection incentives on the provision of public water wells, conditional on measures of precipitation. I find that the provision of water wells in municipalities with first-term mayors is higher on average than in cities where mayors face term limits, as long as the frequency of dry years is sufficiently high. | |