Braun, Thomas; Schlenker, Wolfram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-difference estimator using a 59-year-long panel of weather records paired with the fraction of a county that is irrigated in 393 counties … distribution by up to 3C (5F) during the month of August, which has positive externalities on downwind crop yields ($120 million … per year) and temperature-induced excess mortality ($240 million per year) that are of equal magnitude as the direct …