We investigate the macroeconomic impacts of extreme weather shocks on the United States economy over the past sixty … years. To identify changes in extreme weather patterns, we use the Actuaries Climate Index, which tracks changes in extreme … of extreme weather shocks are negligible at the beginning of the sample, they become significant at the end, where an …

This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

model coefficients, which may not hold in practice. We investigate the assumption of spatio-temporal stability of weather …. We reject the null hypothesis of time-constant weather shock coefficients for roughly one-third of sample counties and …

While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known … response to weather shocks. We find that Fonden decreases migration in response to heavy rainfall, hurricanes and droughts …

decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China …