While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known … response to weather shocks. We find that Fonden decreases migration in response to heavy rainfall, hurricanes and droughts …

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 …

-difference estimator using a 59-year-long panel of weather records paired with the fraction of a county that is irrigated in 393 counties … weather shocks in highly irrigated areas are not exogenous but are influenced by human responses in the form of irrigation …

To estimate the economic effects of weather variability in the United States, the authors define and measure weather … sensitivity as the variability in economic output that is attributable to weather variability, accounting for changes in … technology and changes in levels of economic inputs (i.e., capital, labor, and energy). Using 24 yr of economic data and weather …