While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known … investigate the mitigating impact of an agricultural cashtransfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden) on the migration … response to weather shocks. We find that Fonden decreases migration in response to heavy rainfall, hurricanes and droughts …

This paper focuses on the US Billion-dollar Weather/Climate Disaster report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …'s crop insurance program are key sources of quantified disaster loss data, among others. The methodology uses a factor … uncertainties and biases in the billion-dollar disaster data. The net effect of all biases appears to be an underestimation of …

simulations for all three of the natural disaster events examined provide additional confidence in the U.S. Billion-dollar weather …Research examining natural disaster costs on social and economic systems is substantial. However, there are few … empirical studies that seek to quantify the uncertainty and establish confidence intervals surrounding natural disaster cost …

that up to 60% of the variance in both simulated and observed yields is attributable to weather variation. Majority of the … that show yields to be more weather-sensitive than in the observational record over the predominant range of temperature … uncertainty in historical weather forcings, and is responsible for widely divergent impacts of climate on future crop yields. …