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

We review the emerging literature on climate and conflict. We consider multiple types of
human conflict, including both interpersonal conflict, such as assault and murder, and …

As climate change intensifies, global publics will experience more unusual weather and
extreme weather events. How will individual experiences with these weather trends shape …

We leveraged exogenous variation in weather patterns across geographies to identify social
contagion in exercise behaviours across a global social network. We estimated these …

Introduction Despite the existence of institutions designed to promote peace, interactions
between individuals and groups sometimes lead to conflict. Understanding the causes of …

We show that geography, through its impact on history, can have important effects on
economic development today. The analysis focuses on the historic interaction between …

Are violent conflict and socio-political stability associated with changes in climatological
variables? We examine 50 rigorous quantitative studies on this question and find consistent …

The world is generally becoming less violent, but the debate on climate change raises the
specter of a new source of instability and conflict. In this field, the policy debate is running …

The conventional discourse relating climate change to conflict focuses on long term trends in
temperature and precipitation that define ecosystems and their subsequent impact on …

Instrumental variable (IV) analysis relies on the exclusion restriction—that the instrument
only affects the dependent variable via its relationship with the independent variable and not …