examines the effect of weather shocks on various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the … weather on crime via agricultural income, which is in line with the economic theory of crime. Our findings have direct policy … implications for the design of crime prevention strategies, in which weather forecasts could play an important role. …

South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world. This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on …, we find evidence for a subtle medium-term effect of weather on crime via droughts and agricultural income, which is in … various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the police ward level, we observe a short …

As climate change accelerates, the frequency of extreme weather conditions will increase. We assess the impact of …. We merge high-resolution weather data with panel survey data that contains individual labor market outcomes and estimate …

We use detailed crime, agriculture, and weather data from India during the years 1971-2000 to conduct a systematic … analysis of the relationship between weather shocks and multiple categories of crime. We find that drought and heat exert a … shocks drive the weather-crime relationship in developing countries. The patterns we find are consistent with this hypothesis …

A growing literature estimates the macroeconomic effect of weather using variations in annual country-level averages of … frequency or higher spatial resolution. To address this issue, we rely on global daily weather measurements with a 30-km spatial … resolution from 1979 to 2019 and construct 164 weather variables and their lags. We select a parsimonious subset of relevant …

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 …

analysis is based on a 50-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2,972 U.S. counties. I identify the effect of … weather on monthly crime by using a semi-parametric bin estimator and controlling for county-by-month and county-by-year fixed …

Can social policies assist households in coping with the effects of extreme weather events? We evaluate the role of the …