This paper uses international trade data toexamine the effects of climate shocks on economicactivity. At the aggregate level, MelissaDell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A.Olken (2008) (hereafter, DJO) have demonstratedthat higher temperatures in a given yearreduce the growth rate of GDP per...

The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous...