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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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will impact the economy, and these impacts could help explain broader observed relationships between temperature and … 177 thousand tennis matches merged to hourly temperature data, we study the effects of temperature on tennis performance …, and temperature impacts do not appear to offer profitable arbitrage opportunities …
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empirical analysis of the impacts of heat on total factor productivity in U.S manufacturing yields findings broadly consistent …
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Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms; (ii) limited employment gains in large firms; and … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing …
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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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I formally relate the consequences of climate change to the time series variation in weather extensively explored by … reduced-form weather regressions. Applying this new method, I find that an additional 2°C of global warming would reduce …
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Do people move as a result of temperature shocks? Documenting weather as a push factor for migration is crucial for … informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high-temperature days on out …-term temperature variations that are commonly leveraged in the literature. We provide evidence consistent with the idea that the effect …
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This paper employs a stochastic frontier approach to examine how climate change and extreme weather affect U ….S. agricultural productivity using 1940-1970 historical weather data (mean and variation) as the norm. We have four major findings …. First, using temperature humidity index (THI) load and Oury index for the period 1960-2010 we find each state has …
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Climate change will increase the risk of temperature extremes. Induced innovation could offset some of this threat …
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conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We show …
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