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What to Expect When It Gets Hotter : The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health

Kim, Jiyoon - 2019

We use temperature variation within narrowly-defined geographic and demographic cells to show that exposure to extreme heat increases the risk of maternal hospitalization during pregnancy for potentially life-threatening causes. We find that this effect is driven by women residing in...

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Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth : Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap

Bakkensen, Laura - 2018

into macroeconomic climate-economy models. This paper proposes a joint empirical-structural approach to bridge this gap for … a stochastic growth model for 40 vulnerable countries and project welfare effects of climate-driven cyclone risk changes …

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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion

Galor, Oded - 2018

This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of humans to...

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Climate and Civil War : Is the Relationship Robust?

Burke, Marshall - 2010

our choice of historical time period and climate dataset. We demonstrate that Buhaug's proposed method of controlling for … climate data and to alternate codings of major war. Using Buhaug's preferred climate data under sound econometric assumptions …

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Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog

Clay, Karen - 2010

In a paper presented to the Royal Meteorological Society, Brodie (1905) presented a data series that presaged the modern Environmental Kuznets Curve: in the decades leading up to 1890, the number of foggy days in London rose steadily, but after 1891, the fogs began to subside. Brodie attributed...

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Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration

Deschenes, Olivier - 2007

We estimate the effect of extreme weather on life expectancy in the US. Using high frequency mortality data, we find that both extreme heat and extreme cold result in immediate increases in mortality. However, the increase in mortality following extreme heat appears entirely driven by temporal...

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Tropical Underdevelopment

Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2001

technology in the two critical areas of agriculture and health, and this in turn opened a substantial income gap between climate …

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Weather, Climate, and Migration in the United States

Mullins, Jamie T.; Bharadwaj, Prashant - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high-temperature days on out … climate change …

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Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World

Geruso, Michael - 2018

geographic distribution of harms documented here have the potential to significantly alter assessments of optimal climate policy …

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Climate Policy under Cooperation and Competition between Regions with Spatial Heat Transport

Cai, Yongyang - 2018

We build a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system … including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in most IAMs. These elements are spatial heat … cooperation and various degrees of competition between regions. Our results suggest that when the elements of climate science …

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