We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families … unusually cold weather (a 10 degree F drop below normal). At same time, poor families reduce food expenditures by roughly the … their children outside the South spend and eat less food during cold weather temperature shocks. We surmise that existing …

in weather conditions. Better risk, credit and savings markets can improve productivity and welfare in rural areas but … insurance contracts - improving the skill of long-run weather forecasts. We use an equilibrium model of agricultural production … seasonal forecasts of monsoon weather. We find that in areas where the forecast is accurate (has "skill") that investment …

The relationships among the weather, agricultural markets, and financial markets have long been of interest to economic …

effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian …

This paper employs a stochastic frontier approach to examine how climate change and extreme weather affect U ….S. agricultural productivity using 1940-1970 historical weather data (mean and variation) as the norm. We have four major findings …. Fourth, we project potential impacts of climate change and extreme weather on U.S. regional productivity based on the …

We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local …

the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting … stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …