Lightning provides nitrogen fixation that fertilizes crops, but there have been no estimates on how this naturally provided input affects actual production and incentivizes farm behaviors. Based on a decades-long panel of US counties with geo-referenced lightning activities, I find lightning...

More extreme heat events are expected under climate change, posing threats to food production as well as the lives of agriculture-dependent rural households. Using a detailed panel of rural households in an agricultural region of China, we find extreme heat substantially decreases crop...