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 …

research agenda, as the identification of exogenous weather shocks is still an open issue. Using daily county-level data since …

Excessive heat and cold weather waves may affect economic activity through energy markets. Yet, if a clear distinction …

major Medicare reform created a derived demand shock to equipment manufacturers. Using a difference … conceptualizing firms’ pre-shock vertical scope as a representation of existing resources and governance choices, we explain that …

The question of how climate change and weather fluctuations affect the economy is high on the economic research agenda …

In this paper, we investigate the impact of adverse weather shocks on Colombian economic activity, with a particular … that adverse weather shocks, such as those related to the El Niño event in 2015-2016, lead to decreases in agricultural … by weather shocks, allowing us to incorporate this empirical evidence into a structural model for Colombia. …

This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia … channels to cushion the impact of the weather shock. In households where the head has more experience in herding, children … lived in districts in which the shock was particularly harsh are significantly shorter two years after the shock. The …