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We provide empirical evidence indicating that changes in surface temperatures may directly impact manufacturing output … through their impact on worker productivity. We utilize a multi-year panel of manufacturing plants in India, as well as daily … worker productivity measures from selected case-study units to show that (i) manufacturing output decreases at high …
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This paper adds to the scarce empirical evidence related to the impact of climate change on the manufacturing sector …. To study the effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions daily temperature information from 11.000 German … municipalities are combined with the census of the manufacturing industry. The census data covers the universe of German …
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Hotter years are associated with lower economic output in developing countries. We show that the effect of temperature …
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reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis … exogeneity of short-term daily temperature variations in a given tournament from the average temperature over the same tournament …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age …
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-exposed economic sectors like agriculture, construction, and manufacturing. The development of new technologies that mitigate exposure … to heat among workers, combined with better temperature control in the workplace, will be essential to reduce the …
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. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate the effect of daily temperature on annual income in United States … temperature above 15°C (59°F). A weekday above 30°C (86°F) costs an average county $20 per person. Hot weekends have little effect … price changes. Because the effect of temperature has not changed since 1969, we infer that recent uptake or innovation in …
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. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate the effect of daily temperature on annual income in United States … temperature above 15°C (59°F). A weekday above 30°C (86°F) costs an average county $20 per person. Hot weekends have little effect … price changes. Because the effect of temperature has not changed since 1969, we infer that recent uptake or innovation in …
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