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We have a new paper out in Science: Social and Economic Impacts of Climate   For centuries, thinkers have considered whether and how cl...

I just happen to be working on a review of hurricane's socio-economic impacts right now, and since there seems to be widespread interes...

Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments: Evidence from Huntington Disease Emily Oster, Ira Shoulson, E. Ray Dorsey ...

We had an excellent session at AGU last week , thanks to everyone who contributed. Here's a video of the talks, which are succinct, inte...

Two articles came out in PNAS Environmental Sciences this week estimating the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster ( Yasunari et al...

Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States Alan Barreca, Price V. Fishback, and Shawn Kantor  Abstract: ...

This week in AEJ Applied: Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US  Olivier Des...

Since we're pretty big on data visualization here on Fight Entropy I thought I'd point out that the guys over at Information is Bea...

Climatic suitability for malaria transmission. See more here .  In a Comment to Nature this week, M.C. Thomson et al. make the case th...

This is a pretty inspiring story of field work for children with treatable blindness in India, and neurological research that goes alongsid...