Identifying the effect of climate on societies is central to understanding historical economic
development, designing modern policies that react to climatic events, and managing future …

A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature,
precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on …

Concerns about the incessant rise in emissions and their attendant effects on climate
change, which is ravaging the globe, are on the ascendency. The literature has almost …

Climate scientists have long emphasized the importance of climate tip** points like
thawing permafrost, ice sheet disintegration, and changes in atmospheric circulation. Yet …

Which policies can increase the resilience of the financial system to climate risks? Recent
evidence on the significant impacts of climate change and natural disasters on firms, banks …

We study the long-term impact of climate change on economic activity across countries,
using a stochastic growth model where productivity is affected by deviations of temperature …

Migration is one response to climatic stress and shocks. In this article we review the recent
literature across various disciplines on the effects of climate change on migration. We …

Combining granular daily data on temperatures across the continental United States with
detailed establishment data from 1990 to 2015, we study the causal impact of temperature …

We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air conditioning may mitigate this
effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million students who retook the PSATs show …

We present a novel data set of subnational economic output, Gross Regional Product (GRP),
for more than 1500 regions in 77 countries that allows us to empirically estimate historic …