's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an …This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children … exacerbate the human capital impacts of rainfall shocks depending on whether it relaxes or constrains household budgets. The data …

dividends next period as ambiguous. We calibrate the agent's ambiguity aversion to match only the first moment of the risk …

This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and … weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases, in the case of high variability (but …

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period 1950-2014. Temperature and rainfall determine production possibilities …

We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross …-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county … weather shocks hitting individual regions. We also show that (i) taking into account economic interconnections between states …