Showing 1 - 10 of 94,470
examines the effect of weather shocks on various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the … weather on crime via agricultural income, which is in line with the economic theory of crime. Our findings have direct policy … implications for the design of crime prevention strategies, in which weather forecasts could play an important role. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782575
South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world. This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on …, we find evidence for a subtle medium-term effect of weather on crime via droughts and agricultural income, which is in … various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the police ward level, we observe a short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821104
examines the effect of weather shocks on various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the … weather on crime via agricultural income, which is in line with the economic theory of crime. Our findings have direct policy … implications for the design of crime prevention strategies, in which weather forecasts could play an important role. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783761
South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world. This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on …, we find evidence for a subtle medium-term effect of weather on crime via droughts and agricultural income, which is in … various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the police ward level, we observe a short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822348
South Africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world. This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on …-term effect of temperatures on violent crime. Furthermore, we find evidence for the medium-term effect of weather on crime via … various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at a monthly resolution on the police ward level, we observe a short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520702
As climate change accelerates, the frequency of extreme weather conditions will increase. We assess the impact of …. We merge high-resolution weather data with panel survey data that contains individual labor market outcomes and estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212981
We use detailed crime, agriculture, and weather data from India during the years 1971-2000 to conduct a systematic … analysis of the relationship between weather shocks and multiple categories of crime. We find that drought and heat exert a … shocks drive the weather-crime relationship in developing countries. The patterns we find are consistent with this hypothesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146271
A growing literature estimates the macroeconomic effect of weather using variations in annual country-level averages of … frequency or higher spatial resolution. To address this issue, we rely on global daily weather measurements with a 30-km spatial … resolution from 1979 to 2019 and construct 164 weather variables and their lags. We select a parsimonious subset of relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079013
I document empirical regularities of flooding in the US with newly-compiled insured, uninsured, historical loss, and flood zone data at the town level for the decade after 2003. I identify instances with low damage and low risk expectations, implied by the high uninsured share, where experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852543
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552864