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. Parameterizing the model, we explore the impact of a worldwide temperature increase of 3° C. We find that the impact on disease …
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This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and … mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health …
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This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
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- 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household … characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non …
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identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (>30°C) decrease total … adaptation and mitigation measures, and that temperature increases may exacerbate the socio-economic consequences of low …
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technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second … monetized value of the mortality reductions on high temperature days due to AC accounts for a substantial fraction of these …
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This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events …
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-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 …For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold … rate of mortality due to cold-related IHD. However, we do not find such a relation for cold-related stroke mortality …
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: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …
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effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. Our innovative approach allows for … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …
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