More extreme heat events are expected under climate change, posing threats to food production as well as the lives of agriculture-dependent rural households. Using a detailed panel of rural households in an agricultural region of China, we find extreme heat substantially decreases crop...

This paper uses unique data on daily air pollution concentrations over the period 2001-2010 to test for manipulation in self-reported data by Chinese cities. First, we employ a discontinuity test to detect evidence consistent with data manipulation. Then, we propose a panel matching approach to...