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 … in both rich and poor countries; positively in cold countries and negatively in hot ones. Weather anomalies reduce …

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 …

children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a … the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence -measured by homicide rates- on birth outcomes. Focusing on small … communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide rates reflect actual exposure to violence, the analysis shows that …

2015). In the literature, so far, impacts of extreme weather events were estimated by using (1) Disaster Impact Models (DIM … to assess economic effects in detail (2). In our approach we integrate recurring extreme weather events as “shocks” into … the model to answer the question if and how a rising number of extreme weather events in the future may influence Germany …

caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear plant. The later was a “man-made” disaster having immense impacts on people …. This paper assesses preparedness for and agri-food impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, identifies challenges in post-disaster … recovery, and withdraws lessons for improving disaster risk management. Japan was not well prepared for such huge disaster …