daunting challenge, particularly in developing countries' rural areas. Today, frequent extreme weather events harm agricultural … for mitigating weather shocks, little is known about how households' labor reallocation in response to weather shocks is …

In this paper, we examine the relationship between childhood exposure to adverse weather shocks and nutritional and … health outcomes of children in Tanzania. Using household panel data matched with spatially disaggregated data on weather … shocks, we exploit the plausibly exogenous variations in the exposure to weather shocks to estimate the relationship. Our …

examines the effect of weather shocks on various types of crime. Using a 12-year panel data set at monthly resolution on the … weather on crime via agricultural income, which is in line with the economic theory of crime. Our findings have direct policy … implications for the design of crime prevention strategies, in which weather forecasts could play an important role. …