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Coal, smoke, and death : bituminous coal and American home heating
Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Tarr, Joel A. - 2014
at the state-year-season level. It exploits the fact that coal consumption for heating was highest in the winter and uses … in the use of bituminous coal for heating between 1945 and 1960 decreased winter all-age mortality by 1.25 percent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250025
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Adapting to climate change : the remarkable decline in the US temperature-mortality relationship over the 20th century
Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Deschênes, Olivier; … - 2015
A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the entire 20th century in the United...
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