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This dissertation studies how environmental shocks, risk attitudes and time preferences affect key decisions made by households which affect their long term well-being. The first chapter studies how natural disasters affect household migration. I separately examine the impact of…

This study examines a recent policy proposal that as a way out of poverty, third world countries should reform their present land policy to incorporate a cadastral system. The proponents of this policy reform have argued that the poorest nations of the world require formalizatio…