Accumulating evidence indicates that environmental temperature substantially affects economic outcomes and violence … multiple dimensions of economic decisionmaking, judgment, and destructive behavior with 2,000 participants in Kenya and the US … unaffected by temperature. However, heat causes individuals to voluntarily destroy other participants' assets, with more …

agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …, such as the role of initial temperature, and differential patterns of warming across the globe. We combine these climate …

This paper integrates local temperature treatment effects and a quantitative macroeconomic model to evaluate the impact … countries to estimate the effect of temperature on productivity in manufacturing and services. Estimates suggest that extreme … heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to …

agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a … decentralized and competitive research system in the US. Recent intellectual property reforms motivated increased private investment …. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

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 …

A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms … 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 …

Climate change will increase the risk of temperature extremes. Induced innovation could offset some of this threat …

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 …. First, using temperature humidity index (THI) load and Oury index for the period 1960-2010 we find each state has …

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 …

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 …