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droughts, floods and cyclones. We examine the impact of weather events on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young … savings, and access to credit and insurance which limits their ability to cope with negative weather shocks. We observe both … contemporaneous and lagged effects of the weather shocks which are of a similar magnitude. …
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This study analyzes the effects of exposure to tropical storms and hurricanes during pregnancy on children’s anthropometric measurements taken within the first five years of life. It combines destruction indexes at the district level with 13 yearly rounds of household level surveys from...
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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 …
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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 …
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