Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes …, particularly in a developing country setting. Analyzing a rich database consisting of household and school surveys, test scores …, and temperature and air pollution data over the past decade for Viet Nam, we find that a 1 μg/m3 increase in PM2 …

We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

temperature change do agree on the sign but differ an order of magnitude in effect size. The former studies posit that climate … implied by studies of the impact of climate change is close to the growth impact estimated as a function of weather shocks …Earlier meta-analyses of the economic impact of climate change are updated with more data, with three new results: (1 …

We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

agriculture. With mounting evidence that climate is warming, we show that such warming will have substantial impacts on … unique fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of temperatures between the minimum and maximum …-linear and asymmetric relationship between temperature and yields. Yields increase in temperature until about 29C for corn and …

Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are …, randomizing 250 villages into control; a forecast group receiving information well in advance of onset; and a benchmark index … insurance group. Forecast farmers update their beliefs and their behavior: farmers who receive "bad news" relative to their …

investigates the impact of climate variability on household welfare in the area using a three-period panel data from the Ghana …Climate variability poses a major risk to agricultural incomes in Africa. In Ghana, most of the country's poor people … Living Standards Survey, in addition to data on annual rainfall and temperature for northern Ghana for the period 1991 to …