America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004, and carries out second-generation tests for non-stationary panels …

effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. Our innovative approach allows for … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …

-2018), we explore the relationship between temperature and workplace safety and its implications for labor market inequality …. Hotter temperature increases workplace injuries significantly, causing approximately 20,000 injuries per year. The effects … temperature (e.g. falling from heights), consistent with cognitive or cost-related channels. The risks are substantially larger …

characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non …

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 …

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in … family structure with income pooling is less the norm, there are fewer opportunities for paid employment, and aggregate …

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous … region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for …

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross …-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor …-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries is susceptible to a resource curse, and grows rapidly in response to …