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This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the impacts of temperature and climate change on human pregnancies … year-to-year fluctuation in temperature. The insights that emerge from the review highlight that exposure to heat in the …, understanding the relationship between temperature and pregnancy-related outcomes is far from perfect. Importantly, the potential …
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Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study outlines a conceptual framework and shows that the results of the standard empirical approach are biased if (i) the exposure changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health...
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many ways. Since sleep is a basic human need and part of everyone's life, the question of how temperature affects human … sleep naturally arises. This paper examines the effect of daily mean temperature on sleep duration using nationally … representative Hungarian time use surveys between 1976 and 2010. Compared to a mild temperature (5-10 °C), colder temperatures do not …
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consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … and consumption surveys, we find that temperature change has larger impacts in the short term and more impacts on chronic …
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