We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using … administrative data from state child protective service agencies. Leveraging short-term weather variation, we find increases in … analysis identifies neglect as the temperature-sensitive maltreatment type, and we do not find evidence that adaptation via air …

fluctuations in heat exposure within cities. The results demonstrate that exposure to extremely hot weather during pregnancy … extreme temperature exposure during pregnancy undermines maternal health. Our analysis proposes a new channel through which … extreme weather generates health and economic costs …

Increased temperature-related mortality is predicted to be one of the largest contributors to future economic damages …-related deaths in others. Changes in temperature could also affect non-fatal health outcomes, whose aggregate societal burden is … large, yet much less is known about how temperature affects the overall level and distribution of morbidity. Using …

We provide novel evidence that large-scale irrigation heterogeneously shifts the temperature distribution towards …-difference estimator using a 59-year-long panel of weather records paired with the fraction of a county that is irrigated in 393 counties … over the Ogallala aquifer. Cooling-by-irrigation propagates downwind and reduces the upper tail of the temperature …

We use plant-level data from the US Census of Manufacturers to study the short and long run effects of temperature on … manufacturing activity. We document that temperature shocks significantly increase energy costs and lower the productivity of small …