with a negative income shock. In addition, marriages precipitated by negative income shocks may present specific features … (endogamy, age and education difference between spouses). Weather shocks provide an exogenous source of variation of household … income through agricultural production. Data on weather shocks are merged with individual and household level data from the …

nation that is frequently affected by extreme weather events. Our results show that negative rainfall deviations and cyclones … insurance, which reduces their ability to cope with negative weather shocks. …

Modern technology empowers human beings to cope with various extreme weather events. Using Chinese historical data, we … examine the impact of extreme weather on long-term human health in an environment where individuals have no access to modern … technology. By combining life course data on 5,000 Chinese elites with historical weather data over the period 1-1840 AD, we find …

decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China …

log of birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight - using a nationally representative dataset in rural China …

literature, we define extreme temperature exposure in relative terms based on local temperature patterns. Combining the China …