We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross …-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county … weather shocks hitting individual regions. We also show that (i) taking into account economic interconnections between states …

While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known … response to weather shocks. We find that Fonden decreases migration in response to heavy rainfall, hurricanes and droughts …

. We reject the null hypothesis of time-constant weather shock coefficients for roughly one-third of sample counties and … model coefficients, which may not hold in practice. We investigate the assumption of spatio-temporal stability of weather …

effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. Our innovative approach allows for … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor temperature on media bias. We use 12 years of daily hand-coded data on the … City, and merge it with granular, geospatial weather data. Our identification strategy exploits detailed variations in … 1°C increment in daily maximum temperature on a hot day (>25°C) leads to a 20% increase in the media bias measured as …

entrepreneurs appear to be especially forward-looking and responsive to warmer January temperature as a locational amenity. The …