on a 12-years panel data set of detailed crime records and weather data, it confirms the plausibility of a heat …-aggression mechanisms, and finds evidence for a weather-agricultural income-crime channel. …Chapter 2 examines how violent and property crime respond to temperature, rainfall and drought in South Africa. Based …

This paper studies how weather shocks affect agricultural outcomes in Bolivia at the farm-level. Using micro-data from …, we show that weather shocks, such as extreme temperature and extreme rainfall shocks have detrimental effects on Bolivian … farmers’ yield. We also study how farmers cope with short-run weather extreme variations. We present our results …