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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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This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...
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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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Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
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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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cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally representative longitudinal survey in China with weather data …
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In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a reduced-form model of the labor market, we show that job finding rate fluctuations generate intrinsically a non-linear effect on unemployment: positive shocks reduce...
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Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...
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We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …
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