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- 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 …This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …
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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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workers to report an injury that they would not have reported in the absence of heat. We investigate how temperature affects … heterogeneity in the temperature effects, which seem to be influenced by incentives. Specifically, when a male player is losing at … the beginning of a crucial (second) fourth set in (best-of-three) best-of-five matches, the temperature effect is much …
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estimates reveal no evidence of adaptation, instead the temperature relationship is stable across time, baseline climate, air … that temperature affects mental health very differently than physical health, and more similarly to other psychological and … the implications of our findings for the allocation of mental health services and in light of climate change. …
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We estimate the impact of temperatures on work-related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather … relies on the plausible exogeneity of short-term daily temperature variations in a given spatial unit. We find that both high … weather conditions on work-related accident rates is larger for men, in manufacturing and service sectors, and for workplace …
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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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We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …
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