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This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...
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weather shocks, we find that drought tolerant maize seeds mitigate the impact of mid-season drought. Compared to farms in …
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Correctional facilities commonly lack climate control, producing a setting absent endogenous responses to hot weather … like avoidance, adjustment, and mitigation. We study daily weather variation across the state of Mississippi, and show that …
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We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...
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historic data on weather, climate, economic activity and other variables. This has been an active area of research for several … long-run) estimated, the type of weather or climate variation used, and the pros and cons of the approach …
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Accumulating evidence indicates that environmental temperature substantially affects economic outcomes and violence, but the reasons for this linkage are not well understood. We systematically evaluate the effect of thermal stress on multiple dimensions of economic decisionmaking, judgment, and...
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in weather conditions. Better risk, credit and savings markets can improve productivity and welfare in rural areas but … insurance contracts - improving the skill of long-run weather forecasts. We use an equilibrium model of agricultural production … seasonal forecasts of monsoon weather. We find that in areas where the forecast is accurate (has "skill") that investment …
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We use spatially disaggregated daily crime data for the City of Los Angeles to measure the impact of heat and pollution on crime and to study how this relationship varies across the city. On average, overall crime increases by 2.2% and violent crime by 5.7% on days with maximum daily...
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plays a role in mitigating the health impacts of weather shocks. We also find that the heat-induced deterioration in …
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Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In contrast, it is generally assumed that non-economic factors, such as an individual's emotional state, play a role in many types of interpersonal violence, such as "crimes of...
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