One of the major adaptation mechanisms to climate change is increased demand for cooling via the air conditioning of … indoor environments. China¡¯s demand for air conditioners has displayed explosive growth since 1995. This paper provides … estimates of the income and short run weather sensitivity of air conditioner adoption across urban areas for 29 Chinese …

Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …

The role of weather in crop production at field is central to understanding the impact of climate change on agriculture … field effect of weather on crop production at the regional scale with unobserved producer behavior. We took a systematic … empirical application of our approach to spring wheat production found spatially heterogeneous effect of weather and climate …

analysis is based on a 30-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2997 US counties. I identify the effect of weather …

to year-to-year variation in weather. Controlling for state-year and individual fixed effects, we find that individuals …

salience of climate change and examine how search patterns vary with unusual local weather. We find that searches for “climate … effects of abnormal weather extend beyond search behavior to observable action on environmental issues. We examine the voting …-environment stance on votes when their home state experiences unusual weather. …

We investigate the impact of short-term weather and long-term climate on self-reported life satisfaction using panel … data. We find robust evidence that day-to-day weather variation impacts life satisfaction by a similar magnitude to … present evidence that weather bias arises because of the cognitive challenge of reporting life satisfaction. Consistent with …

assistance. This paper contributes by assessing the economics of adaptation to extreme weather events. [Working Paper 199] …