Although high-resolution gridded climate variables are provided by multiple sources, the need for country and region …-specific climate data weighted by indicators of economic activity is becoming increasingly common in environmental and economic … research. We process available information from different climate data sources to provide spatially aggregated data with global …

The latest generation of global climate models robustly projects that the summer monsoon rainfall in India will … agricultural yield. Based on annual district data for the years 1966-2014, we estimate the relationship between weather indices … (seasonal rainfall, wet days, average temperature) and the most widely grown kharif crops, including rice, in a flexible non …

We estimate the impact of temperatures on work-related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather … relies on the plausible exogeneity of short-term daily temperature variations in a given spatial unit. We find that both high … weather conditions on work-related accident rates is larger for men, in manufacturing and service sectors, and for workplace …

This paper estimates the impact of climate change on the prevalence of criminal activity in the United States. The … 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 …