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estimates reveal no evidence of adaptation, instead the temperature relationship is stable across time, baseline climate, air … that temperature affects mental health very differently than physical health, and more similarly to other psychological and … the implications of our findings for the allocation of mental health services and in light of climate change. …
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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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to evaluating climate-change investments. …
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, allowing us to address identification issues endemic in the climate change literature related to adaptation and location … sorting. We find substantial heterogeneity in the effects of extreme temperature exposure on birth outcomes. In particular …
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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 …
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-age poverty and less nursing care. We project that unabated climate change might bring heat to areas with particularly vulnerable …
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Although at least 400 million people suffer from seasonal allergies worldwide, the adverse effects of pollen on "non-health" outcomes, such as cognition and productivity, are relatively understudied. Using ambulance archives from Japan, we demonstrate that high pollen days are associated with...
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reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis … exogeneity of short-term daily temperature variations in a given tournament from the average temperature over the same tournament …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734415
empirically by drawing on methods from the household economics literature. The test results support the hypothesis that weather …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 …
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