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decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China …
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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 …
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selves have different tastes for time alone, time with family, and time with friends. Weather conditions can change the … empirically by drawing on methods from the household economics literature. The test results support the hypothesis that weather …
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cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally representative longitudinal survey in China with weather data …
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Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather …
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This paper investigates the effects of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures on birth outcomes – specifically, the log of birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight – using a nationally representative dataset in rural China. During the span of our data (i.e., 1991–2000), indoor...
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We use temperature variation within narrowly-defined geographic and demographic cells to show that prenatal exposure to extreme heat increases the risk of maternal hospitalization during pregnancy, and that this effect is larger for black than for white mothers. At childbirth, heat-exposed...
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nation that is frequently affected by extreme weather events. Our results show that negative rainfall deviations and cyclones … insurance, which reduces their ability to cope with negative weather shocks …
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We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the …
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In this paper, we combine administrative data for continental Spain from 2010 to 2018 with meteorological data to identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (30°C) decrease total fertility rate (TFR) in Spain, and that the estimated...
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