-ante study of the economic impacts of climate change, and an ex-post evaluation of the China productivity shock on the U …

Correctional facilities commonly lack climate control, producing a setting absent endogenous responses to hot weather … like avoidance, adjustment, and mitigation. We study daily weather variation across the state of Mississippi, and show that …

We use spatially disaggregated daily crime data for the City of Los Angeles to measure the impact of heat and pollution … on crime and to study how this relationship varies across the city. On average, overall crime increases by 2.2% and … violent crime by 5.7% on days with maximum daily temperatures above 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29.4° C) compared to days below …

limited influence of a cash transfer program as well as comparison with both non-violent DTO crime and suicides, indicate that …

between crime rates in a particular area due to displacement. In this paper, we exploit the correlation between weather and … lagged crime rates due to unexpected weather shocks, we find that the strong positive serial correlation documented in OLS is … interactions in the production of crime, it may also be due to the persistence of unobserved determinants of crime. Moreover, there …

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 …

-difference estimator using a 59-year-long panel of weather records paired with the fraction of a county that is irrigated in 393 counties … weather shocks in highly irrigated areas are not exogenous but are influenced by human responses in the form of irrigation …