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, consistent with long-run adaptation to climate, sales sensitivity to weather declines with historical norms and variability of … weather. Short-run adaptation to weather shocks is dominated by changes in what people buy and how they buy it, with little … intertemporal substitution. Over four weeks, a one-standard deviation one-day weather shock shifts sales by about 10 percent. While …
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot...
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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with...
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This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness, suicides, and self-reported days of poor mental health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce...
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This study explores the link between daily weather conditions and individual engagement in physical activities within … the context of the climate emergency. Using ATUS data from 2003-2022, alongside detailed daily-county weather data, the … physical activity across varying weather conditions amid the ongoing climate emergency. …
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, little research has been conducted to understand the fiscal impact of weather, especially at the sub-state level. Using data … results show that weather has statistically significant and economically meaningful effects on local government spending. A 1 … expenditures. Some government functions, such as public works and general government, are affected more by weather than others. The …
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather andpollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
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This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...
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