decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China …

This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We first show that during …

We combine exogenous variation in temperature at the county-day level in the U.S. with daily time use data to examine … the effect of temperature on joint time use. We show that low temperatures reduce time spent with friends but increase … evidence of the effect of temperature on joint time use being location-dependent. We rationalize this finding using a model in …

cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally representative longitudinal survey in China with weather data … according to the exact time and geographic location of their assessment, we show that exposure to a temperature above 32 °C on …

highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures …

This paper provides estimates of labor productivity for one-third of UK manufacturing during the Great Depression. It … with comparable real output and employment statistics. It establishes that output per worker-hour was countercyclical in … the 1929-1932 peak-to-trough years of the Depression. This result has also been found for US manufacturing over the same …