Global climate change poses an existential threat to human civilization because it disrupts the supply of natural resources that provide basic life staples – water, food, and energy. If humankind is unable to adapt to a less abundant and less predictable supply of resources, then the effective...

The role of climate change on economic performance and output has been studied extensively in the empirical literature, however, its distributional effects have received little attention. This paper attempts to fill this gap by investigating whether climate shocks affect income inequality in a...

This paper studies the impact of climate events on educational attainment. Instead of using multiple number of cross section or panel data sets, the educational attainment by age group in a single cross section data set is used to estimate the impact of historical climate shocks. The main...