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georeferenced data on emergency department visits, mortality, and daily temperatures across California from 2006-2017, we show that ….32% due to changes in temperatures by mid-century, with declining cold deaths outweighing increasing heat deaths, but that ED …
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-protecting adaptations to high temperatures. The second part of the paper examines the private and external costs of electricity generation … and consumption related to high temperatures, a commonly-used proxy for measuring the consumption of adaptation services …. Extreme temperatures increase electricity demand in the residential sector (relative to moderate temperatures), but not in the …
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temperatures between the 1980s and the 2010s, these heterogeneous effects have led to higher concentration of manufacturing …
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Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are unable to tailor their planting decisions to the coming season, and underinvest in profitable inputs. Accurate, long-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season...
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How do firms mitigate the impact of rising temperatures on employment? Using establishment-level data, we show that …
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We survey the microeconomics literature that studies how firms in the developing world are adapting to extreme weather, local pollution, and natural disasters. Climate change increases the uncertainty that every firm must address as it decides where and how to produce and who to trade with. We...
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Key methodologies used for managing weather risks have relied on the assumption that climate is not changing and that the historic weather record is therefore representative of current risks. Anthropogenic climate change upends this assumption, effectively reducing the information available to...
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Globally, coercive labor (i.e., forced, bonded, and/or trafficked labor) and child labor are disproportionately prevalent in environments with weak regulatory enforcement and state capacity. Effective strategies for addressing them may therefore need to align with the private incentives of...
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Approximately 27.5 million individuals fell victim to forced labor in 2021. The Indian construction industry is particularly vulnerable to forced labor as workers experience excessive work hours, required work on rest days, and unpaid wages. Micro-contractors (MCs), who oversee worker...
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Experiences in real-world pollution markets suggest that firms make persistent errors in forecasting allowance and credit prices that inform their investment decisions. The residual uncertainty characterizing allowance and credit trading means that pollution markets may fail to deliver...
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