How Climate Shocks Produce Armed Rebellion: The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh

We thank seminar participants at UC Berkeley, Yale School of Management, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), IBA-Karachi, LUMS Pakistan, University of Notre Dame, Harvard/MIT/Brown South Asia seminar, BYU, London School of Economics, NYU, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Shanker Satyanath, Saumitra Jha, Clare Balboni, Rinchan Mirza, David Engerman, Lars Lefgren, Asif Dowla, Ben Polak, and especially discussants at seminars: Martha Chen, Feyaad Allie (Harvard), Adeel Malik (Oxford), Ashutosh Varshney (Brown) for their comments and feedback. Georgii Marinichev and Aleksandra Vasileva provided excellent research assistance. We thank the Satelitte Services Group in NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information, and Ali Bakhtawar for facilitating access to NOAA’s ITOS-1 satellite images. We are grateful to Muhammad Asiful Basar for sharing archive materials. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.