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 …

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 …

labor markets act as a transmission mechanism of the negative effects of weather shocks on agricultural workers, who react …

's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an … natural disaster aid mitigate or eliminate the shock-induced shift toward domestic activities and away from schooling. …

The effects of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and droughts are taken into account in both global and … extreme weather events, in particular, droughts and high temperatures, for the German power sector. Furthermore, we consider … droughts. We stress that increasing frequencies of such extreme weather events will aggravate the observed problem, especially …

remain as valid as ever, it no longer seems feasible in a world that is already engaging actively in using trade policy for …