We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross …-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county … weather shocks hitting individual regions. We also show that (i) taking into account economic interconnections between states …

Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making …. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated … by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics), who found strong effects of temperature on judges' decisions in …

We investigate the impact of short-term weather and long-term climate on self-reported life satisfaction using panel … data. We find robust evidence that day-to-day weather variation impacts life satisfaction by a similar magnitude to … present evidence that weather bias arises because of the cognitive challenge of reporting life satisfaction. Consistent with …

This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and … different specifications confirm that the relationship between climate events and vector-borne diseases is intricate. The 2010 … weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases, in the case of high variability (but …

We analyzed the effects of 10,748 weather events on attention to climate change between December 2011 and November 2014 … increases in attention to climate change, beyond the purely descriptive information provided by the weather forecasts directly … better forecast long-term climate policy support. …

Climate Economy (ACE) closes a gap between analytic climate change assessments and quantitative numeric integrated assessment …

particularly susceptible to weather extremes and adverse climate conditions. In the US, agricultural disaster payments account for … Oscillation (ENSO). In this article, the impact of weather and climate, as well as some economic variables, on disaster payments …, suggesting that advancements in weather and climate forecasts could be helpful in planning for disaster compensation …

Consistent with long-run adaptation to climate, I find that weather sensitivity of daily store level sales decreases … with increasing historical weather variability and norms at an apparel and sporting goods brand. I examine short …-run adaptation to weather shocks using a machine learning based index. I find that weather induces little intertemporal substitution …

Do people move as a result of temperature shocks? Documenting weather as a push factor for migration is crucial for … informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high temperature days on out …-term temperature variations that are commonly leveraged in the literature. We provide evidence consistent with the idea that the effect …

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect …