, Satyanath, and Sergenti (2004) in using rainfall as an exogenous source of economic shocks in Sub-Saharan African countries. The … main difference is that my empirical specifications take into account that rainfall shocks are transitory. Failure to do so …

France's post-war growth has gone through four phases. The strong growth performance of the 1950s was helped by a … protection and inefficient productive capital accumulation as the main source of slower growth. …

each induce growth accelerations, but countries liberalizing their economy before extending political rights do better than … regime change have an independent effect on growth, and taking expectations into account helps identify a stronger growth …

productivity growth during the transition process to a market economy. In contrast, disorganization plays no role in the … determination of employment and productivity growth in newly established private firms. …

window of opportunity for democratic change. We examine this hypothesis using yearly rainfall variation over the 1980 …-2004 period in 41 Sub-Saharan African countries. We find that a 25% drop in rainfall increases the probability of a transition to … democracy during the following two years by around 3 percentage points. A 5% fall in income due to low rainfall raises the …

typically ignore changes in mortality rates. Using panel data from Australia, I show that rainfall lowers traffic deaths …