BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AMSE//Event Calendar//FR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event-10762@amse-aixmarseille.fr DTSTAMP:20260418T140710Z CREATED:20260418T140710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260418T140710Z STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:phd seminar - Natalia Labrador*\, Bakhtawar Ali** DTSTART:20240227T100000Z DTEND:20240227T113000Z DESCRIPTION:*Extreme weather events are increasing due to climate change\, leading subsistence farmers to adopt coping strategies such as non-farm lab or provision or temporary migration to diversify income sources. We examine a new coping strategy: the partial delegation of management rights from th e landowner to the land manager. We hypothesize that the landowner's choice of who manages the land changes when households experience drought or exce ss rainfall. Our analysis is based on plot-level data from a panel of farmi ng households with spouses in Malawi spanning from 2013 to 2019. We find ev idence that women sole owners are 6.9 percentage points less likely to dele gate management rights to their spouses when a drought occurs. Additionally \, matrilineal women landowners and patrilineal men landowners\, individual s with greater security in property rights\, concentrate agricultural decis ion-making on their own (showing less delegation) during droughts. Both fin dings are consistent with the fact that landless matrilineal men and landle ss patrilineal women (the spouses) are more likely to work outside agricult ure in response to drought\, reflecting occupational diversification at the household level. Our results highlight the interplay of cultural norms and agricultural decision-making on the impact of drought.**How and when does a reform trigger a cascading effect? This paper provides evidence that a ju dge selection reform in Pakistan\, which shifted the appointment power of j udges from the government to a committee of judges\, had a multiplier effec t on anti-government rulings in the decade following its implementation. As the first generation of committee-appointed judges (first-degree of separa tion from the government) is replaced by the second generation of committee appointees (second-degree of separation from the government)\, the reform' s effect compounds. Nevertheless\, as the reform amplifies anti-government rulings\, it also increases the concentration of judges hired from a few se lect law firms. Despite the rise in judges hiring their former colleagues f rom law firms where they previously practiced as attorneys\, there is no ob servable decline in the quality of judicial decisions. Rulings based on cas e merits and adherence to due process of law rise with each degree of separ ation from government appointments. Committee-appointed judge hiring panel attracting talent from top law schools—selection effects—emerge as a ke y contributor behind the reform multiplier effect. Overall\, our results un derscore that measures increasing the independence of the judiciary can hav e enduring positive effects on judicial autonomy and decision quality\, eve n when they concurrently alter the composition of the judicial elite by mak ing it concentrated. \\n\\nContact: Lucie Giorgi: lucie.giorgi[at]univ-amu .frRicardo Guzman: ricardo.guzman[at]univ-amu.frNatalia Labrador: natalia. labrador-bernate[at]univ-amu.frNathan Vieira: nathan.vieira[at]univ-amu.fr\ n\nPlus d'informations: https://amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/events/natalia-labr ador-bakhtawar-ali-0 LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Salle 21\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevard Maur ice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille URL;VALUE=URI:https://amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/events/natalia-labrador-bakhtawar-ali-0 CONTACT:Lucie Giorgi: lucie.giorgi[at]univ-amu.frRicardo Guzman: ricardo.gu zman[at]univ-amu.frNatalia Labrador: \;natalia.labrador-bernate[at]univ -amu.frNathan Vieira: nathan.vieira[at]univ-amu.fr TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR