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 … inconsistent with classical utility theory. Similarly, we find that the hedonic value that a swimming pool and that central air add …

and less affected by travel cost shocks. We propose a simple theory of storability/durability of a sector's output as a …

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall … when there is no skill. We show, using an IV strategy in which the Indian government forecast of monsoon rainfall serves as … estimated. Using the full rainfall distribution and our profit function estimates, we find that Indian farmers on average under …

.S. President, cold weather in Manhattan, global warming, the El Niño phenomenon, atmospheric pressure in the Arctic, the …

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 this conclusion is 'erroneous' and argues that higher rainfall levels …

an unusual weather pattern depend crucially on actuarial models for determining event (e.g., default) probabilities. In …