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

administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …

Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather … uninsured poor. We also suggest that in Mexico the thresholds of the weather index be (continuously) re-calibrated in order to …

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

the extent that climate projections are less than optimistic, understanding how individuals respond to extreme weather … extreme weather conditions is that of personal travel, including commuting, an activity that is done daily by millions of … workers worldwide. Within this framework, we estimate the effects of weather conditions on daily commuting and travel choices …

substantial declines in employment - especially overall hours - in the sector in the wake of negative weather-related economic …

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 …