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This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … 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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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 … mean temperature exceeding 80° F has declined by about 70%. Almost the entire decline occurred after 1960. There are about …
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-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 … indicate that ambient temperature during gestation - independent of birth month - modifies the relation between cold and adult …
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migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a …
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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making …. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated … by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics), who found strong effects of temperature on judges' decisions in …
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random year-to-year fluctuations in ambient temperature within counties. We find that the provision of primary care through … primary care may be a useful means of mitigating harm from a warming climate. …
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, allowing us to address identification issues endemic in the climate change literature related to adaptation and location … sorting. We find substantial heterogeneity in the effects of extreme temperature exposure on birth outcomes. In particular …
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relies on the plausible exogeneity of short-term daily temperature variations in a given spatial unit. We find that both high …
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We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The...
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