Night lights, as detected by satellites, are increasingly used by economists, typically as a
proxy for economic activity. The growing popularity of these data reflects either the absence …

Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with
rainfall during hurricanes. But little research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there …

How do weather anomalies affect the economy at the local level? This paper presents a new
data set that links weather data to annual average night-light emission data for 24.000 0.5°× …

Nighttime lights (NTL) are a popular type of data for evaluating economic performance of
regions and economic impacts of various shocks and interventions. Several validation …

The risk of climate disasters has spurred increased interest in public policies that help
expand the number of households with disaster insurance, particularly for financially …

We examine the average causal impact of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti on economic growth
and recovery by conducting a disaggregated empirical analysis at the subnational level. To …

The use of nighttime lights (NTL) data to proxy for local economic activity is well established
in remote sensing and other disciplines. Validation studies comparing NTL data with …

Government provision of disaster transfers is typically hampered by liquidity constraints and
by weak rules and administrative capacity to disburse reconstruction resources. We show …

This paper examines the current, lagged, and indirect effects of tropical cyclones on annual
sectoral growth worldwide. The main explanatory variable is a new damage measure for …

The escalating threat of natural disasters to public safety worldwide underlines the crucial
role of effective environmental risk management tools, such as insurance. This is particularly …