What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature

By Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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Tail-Hedge Discounting and the Social Cost of Carbon (2013, background): “7 Some other models implying a declining discount rate are given in the comprehensive book of Gollier (2012). 8 Some relevant thoughts on this general subject are expressed in Ewijk and Tang (2003).”
Vulnerability to drought and food price shocks : evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “Economists have recently incorporated rainfall data as an exogenous source of shocks in various empirical models to estimate ex-post impacts of weather (Dell et al., 2014).”
Internal Labor Migration as a Shock Coping Strategy: Evidence from a Typhoon (2016, methodology): “…of what they consider an adverse shock and its degree of intensity.3 To reconstruct the typhoon’s impact, we follow a novel approach and identify inundated areas using highly precise and objective geophysical satellite data (Dell et al. 2014), before, during, and after the passing of Ketsana.”
Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections (2016, background): “6 Dell, Jones, and Olken (2014) provide an extensive survey of economics papers that estimate the effects of weather, covering studies in both developed and developing contexts.”
Climate Risk and Capital Structure (2019, background): “See Appendix B for more details Equals one if CreditRating is lower than the lagged value of CreditRating.”
Population health effects and health-related costs of extreme temperatures: Comprehensive evidence from Germany (2018, methodology): “(iii) One additional hot day represents an increase of about 14% in the total number of hot days in Germany, which is very much in line with the Deschênes and Greenstone (2011) prediction for New England using HadCM3. (iv) Finally, we abstain from estimating the impact of fewer cold days because pro”