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by episode0x01 1846 days ago
Not related to dementia, but "Poverty and Witch Killing" [0] does a great job of using extreme weather (rainfall or drought) to estimate the effect of income shocks on violence in Tanzania. Roughly: negative income shocks translated into older women being accused of witchcraft and killed (one less mouth to feed).

[0](http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/assets/assets/miguel_resear...)