While recurring and regular variations of weather conditions are implicitly addressed by standard seasonal adjustment … procedures of economic time series, extraordinary weather outcomes are not. We propose a way of measuring aggregate abnormal … weather conditions based on available local measurements and a straightforward regression-based framework to analyze their …

This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on violent crime using disaggregated data from Brazilian … municipalities over the period 1991-2015. I document that adverse weather shocks in the form of droughts lead to a significant … this persistence, I show that weather uctuations are positively associated not only with agriculture yields, but also with …

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on …

We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …