We survey the microeconomics literature that studies how firms in the developing world are adapting to extreme weather …

Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are …

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

Key methodologies used for managing weather risks have relied on the assumption that climate is not changing and that … the historic weather record is therefore representative of current risks. Anthropogenic climate change upends this … distribution, with associated costs for weather risk management and risk-averse decision-makers. These costs result purely from the …

We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families … unusually cold weather (a 10 degree F drop below normal). At same time, poor families reduce food expenditures by roughly the … their children outside the South spend and eat less food during cold weather temperature shocks. We surmise that existing …

frequent crop and livestock losses from extreme weather events. This raises concerns that sudden, weather-related drops in farm … disaster risks, we estimate an instrumental variables model and find that farm income elasticities of demand for outpatient …

disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. While past natural disasters are local in nature … of large disaster shocks. Even in a fairly conservative case where COVID-19 is a 5-month shock with its magnitude … impact of COVID-19. A costly disaster series is constructed over the sample 1980:1-2020:04 and the dynamic impact of a …