of differential cultural diversity and economic development across the world …. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral traditions across the world, we find that ethnic groups further away from East Africa …

Microdata Sample (PUMS) to value climate amenities using both methods. We compare estimates of marginal willingness to pay (MWTP …), first assuming homogeneous tastes for climate amenities and then allowing preferences for climate amenities to vary by …

I formally relate the consequences of climate change to the time series variation in weather extensively explored by … recent empirical literature. I show that reduced-form fixed effects estimators can recover the effects of climate if agents … depend on actions taken in previous periods. I also show how to recover structural estimates of climate change impacts from …

plays a role in mitigating the health impacts of weather shocks. We also find that the heat-induced deterioration in …

Do people move as a result of temperature shocks? Documenting weather as a push factor for migration is crucial for … informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high-temperature days on out … climate change …

We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the … geographic distribution of harms documented here have the potential to significantly alter assessments of optimal climate policy …

Using 20 years of data on Medicare beneficiaries, we predict the end-of-century mortality effects of climate change …-mortality relationship. We find that this relationship varies systematically with current climate, reflecting both beneficial adaptation to … future climate using the estimated cross-sectional heterogeneity in temperature effects and combine this with projected end …

influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and … growth among other outcomes. By harnessing exogenous variation over time within a given spatial unit, these studies help … credibly identify (i) the breadth of channels linking weather and the economy, (ii) heterogeneous treatment effects across …