Data and Code for Climate Shocks and Exports

The data used in this paper are provided here as Stata files (.dta), comma delimited text files (.csv), or altogether in a compressed folder. Please cite Jones, Benjamin F. and Benjamin A. Olken, "Climate Shocks and Exports", mimeo, 2009.

Data is in country-product-year format. Four data sets are provided, as indicated below, which vary by source of international trade data (US or "World") and by product category resolution (1 or 2 digit SITC codes).

The variables included are, in order:
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year (int) Year
country (string) Country name
cc_num (int) Numeric country identifier
fips (string) FIPS country code
isocode (string) ISO country code
poor (byte) Poor country identifier
wtem (float) Temperature
wpre (float) Precipitation
wtem_poor (float) Temperature x poor
wpre_poor (float) Precipitation x poor
sitc (byte) SITC Rev. 2 product code
prdcnt_id (long) Country x product code
prdyr_id (long) Product x year code
g_imp (float) Annual growth in exports of product
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For further description of the data please see Climate Shocks and Exports(Jones and Olken 2009). For detailed description of the climate data see Climate Shocks and National Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century (Dell, Jones, and Olken 2009).

DATA

1-Digit Exports to US & Climate Stata or CSV

2-Digit Exports to US & Climate Stata or CSV

1-Digit Exports to World & Climate Stata or CSV

2-Digit Exports to World & Climate Stata or CSV

Download all data in compressed folder HERE.

CODE

The Stata .do file used to generate Table 1 and Table 2 in the paper is provided HERE.