This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia … channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. In households where the head has more experience in herding, children … lived in districts in which the shock was particularly harsh are significantly shorter two years after the shock. The …

We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A … month with an average temperature above 30 °C implies export losses of around three percent. These effects are increasing in …

In this paper, we exploit exogenous variation in navigability of the Rhine river to analyze the impact of weather … weather events for business cycle analysis and contributes to gauging the costs of extreme weather events in advanced … economies. Furthermore, we provide a specific example for an idiosyncratic supply shock to a small sector that amplifies to an …