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The origins of cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills: the long-term effect of in-utero rainfall shocks in India
Chang, Grace; Favara, Marta; Novella, Rafael - 2020
outcomes in childhood and adolescence in India. Combining historical rainfall data and longitudinal data from Young Lives, we …
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Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915 to 2002
Bruckner, Tim A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Smith, Kirk R.; … - 2014
For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a …
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Violent conflict exposure in Nigeria and economic welfare
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2019
Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the...
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The impact of changing climate on children's nutritional status in Bangladesh
Hanifi, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; … - 2021
This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … - 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household … and household controls are included. We find that exposure to changing climate in utero and in the month of conception …
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
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Heat, humidity, and infant mortality in the developing world
Geruso, Michael; Spears, Dean - 2018
We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the … geographic distribution of harms documented here have the potential to significantly alter assessments of optimal climate policy. …
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The effects of prenatal exposure to temperature extremes on birth outcomes
Chen, Xi; Tan, Chih Ming; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhang, Xin - 2020
, allowing us to address identification issues endemic in the climate change literature related to adaptation and location …
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What to expect when it gets hotter : the impacts of prenatal exposure to extreme heat on maternal and infant health
Kim, Jiyoon; Lee, Ajin; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2019
in the first year of life. Our results provide new estimates of the health costs of climate change and identify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126018
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Unsafe temperatures, unsafe jobs : the impact of weather conditions on work-related injuries
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
We estimate the impact of temperatures on work-related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather … weather conditions on work-related accident rates is larger for men, in manufacturing and service sectors, and for workplace …
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