This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather …

resources. It appears that individuals and households are able to weather large economic crises at least in terms of maintaining …

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold …-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 … rate of mortality due to cold-related IHD. However, we do not find such a relation for cold-related stroke mortality …

reduces the short-run likelihood of institutional change toward democracy. Output contractions due to adverse weather shocks …