A growing literature has sought to quantify the impacts of natural disasters on economic growth, but has found seemingly contradictory results, ranging from positive to very large negative effects. This paper brings a novel macroeconomic model-based perspective to the data. We present a...

Jung et al. (2014) find gender bias leads to misperception of hurricane risk in both experimental and historical evidence, concluding that this bias has led to increased fatalities in the historical record. We affirm the rich literature on gender bias and its impacts. However, we argue that the...

We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in...

We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in...

We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in...