Data and Code for Climate Change and Agriculture: Subsistence Farmers’ Response to Extreme Heat

This paper examines how subsistence farmers respond to extreme heat. Using micro-datafrom Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures reduce agricultural productivity, increasearea planted, and change crop mix. These findings are consistent with farmers using inputadjustments as a short-term mechanism to attenuate the effect of extreme heat on output. Thisresponse seems to complement other coping strategies, such as selling livestock, but exacerbatesthe drop in yields, a standard measure of agricultural productivity. Using our estimates, weshow that accounting for land adjustments is important to quantify damages associated withclimate change.