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Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) use rainfall variation as an instrument to show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that...
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the impact of the weather on purchasing decisions. We find that the choice to purchase a convertible, a 4-wheel drive, or … a vehicle that is black in color is highly dependent on the weather at the time of purchase in a way that is …
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Economists are increasingly using weather data and climate model output in analyses of the economic impacts of climate … change. This article introduces weather data sets and climate models that are frequently used, discusses the most common … to weather data, including a summary of the types of datasets available, and then discuss five common pitfalls that …
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We estimate habit formation in voting--the effect of past on current turnout--by exploiting transitory voting cost shocks. Using county-level data on U.S. presidential elections from 1952-2012, we find that precipitation on current and past election days reduces voter turnout. Our estimates...
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influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and … credibly identify (i) the breadth of channels linking weather and the economy, (ii) heterogeneous treatment effects across … different types of locations, and (iii) non-linear effects of weather variables. This paper reviews the new literature with two …
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Climate change will increase the risk of temperature extremes. Induced innovation could offset some of this threat. This paper explores the demand and supply for climate adaptation innovation in a market economy. Climate change induces this innovation because the rising temperatures increase...
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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 …
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We estimate how the mortality effects of temperature vary across U.S. climate regions to assess local and national damages from projected climate change. Using 22 years of Medicare data, we find that both cold and hot days increase mortality. However, hot days are less deadly in warm places...
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I formally relate the consequences of climate change to the time series variation in weather extensively explored by … reduced-form weather regressions in more general environments. Applying this new method, I find that an additional 2°C of …
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historic data on weather, climate, economic activity and other variables. This has been an active area of research for several … long-run) estimated, the type of weather or climate variation used, and the pros and cons of the approach …
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