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Crime, Weather, and Climate Change

This paper estimates the impact of climate change on the prevalence of criminal activity in the United States. The analysis is based on a panel of monthly crime, temperature, and precipitation data for 2,972 U.S. counties over the 50-year period from 1960 to 2009. I identify the effect of weather on monthly crime by using a semi-parametric bin estimator and controlling for county-by-month and c...

Climate Change and Damage from Extreme Weather Events by

The risks of extreme weather events are typically being estimated, by federal agencies and others, with historical frequency data assumed to reflect future probabilities. These estimates may not yet have adequately factored in the effects of past and future climate change, despite strong evidence of a changing climate. They have relied on historical data stretching back as far as fifty or a hun...

Weather, Traffic Accidents, and Climate Change

We exploit random daily variation in weather to document the relationship of temperature, rainfall, and snowfall with traffic accidents and travel demand. Using information on 46.5 million accidents from the State Data System of police reported accidents for 20 states and travel demand for 207,455 households included in the National Household Transportation Survey, we find unanticipated effects...

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Soft Computing Techniques for Weather and Climate Change Studies

The Weather is a continuous, data-intensive, multidimensional, dynamic process that makes weather forecasting a formidable challenge. Weather forecasting involves predicting how the present state of the atmosphere will change. Climate is the long-term effect of the sun's radiation on the rotating earth's varied surface and atmosphere. The Day-byday variations in a given area constitute the weat...