analysis is based on a 50-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2,972 U.S. counties. I identify the effect of … weather on monthly crime by using a semi-parametric bin estimator and controlling for county-by-month and county-by-year fixed …

Can social policies assist households in coping with the effects of extreme weather events? We evaluate the role of the …

on a 12-years panel data set of detailed crime records and weather data, it confirms the plausibility of a heat …-aggression mechanisms, and finds evidence for a weather-agricultural income-crime channel. …Chapter 2 examines how violent and property crime respond to temperature, rainfall and drought in South Africa. Based …

Increasing weather volatility poses a significant threat to the livelihood of rural households in developing countries …

This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and … weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases, in the case of high variability (but …

comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock …This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our … significantly reduces the likelihood of being enrolled in mandatory school two to three years after the shock. Similarly, it …

relatively understudied (Sukhtankar, 2017). We test whether NREGA modulates the impact of adverse weather shocks on agricultural … yields. Our empirical strategy exploits the staggered rollout of NREGA and random fluctuations in weather. Using nationwide … influence agricultural productivity and how they interact with weather shocks …