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estimates reveal no evidence of adaptation, instead the temperature relationship is stable across time, baseline climate, air … the implications of our findings for the allocation of mental health services and in light of climate change. …
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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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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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migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a …
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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 … - 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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, allowing us to address identification issues endemic in the climate change literature related to adaptation and location …
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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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Using data covering the universe of injury claims from the nation's largest worker's compensation system (2001-2018), we explore the relationship between temperature and workplace safety and its implications for labor market inequality. Hotter temperature increases workplace injuries...
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This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events … suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes suggests adaptation, knowledge gaps remain, and little is known about … recommended when uncertainties over climate change impacts are high. I discuss how governments can play an important role in …
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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making …
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