Concern about climate change has spurred a large body of scholarship examining how climate influences human behavior, particularly human conflict. While a link between climate and human conflict is well established, ＿＿（17）＿＿ So firmly did it take root that it prevailed in Asia ＿＿（18）＿＿ They then go beyond previous studies, ＿＿（19）＿＿ and examine to what extent ＿＿（20）＿＿ Overall, the results provide evidence for income as a mechanism behind the observed rainfall-crime relationship, which had mostly been assumed in previous scholarship.