Several studies have examined the link between climate and health, mainly focusing on the short term impacts of extreme … temperatures. This paper analyzes instead the long term relation between climate variability and health using Swedish temperature … associated with lower mortality. The results indicate that long term climate variations in annual mean temperatures and not short …

The European Union has been prizing itself for being the global leader in terms of climate change; its triptych … competitiveness. The 2014 energy and climate package and its 2030 targets were therefore not only comparably unambitious but also … nonbinding, with only GHG emission reduction being set. With the eastern countries traditionally being not very fond of climate …

limits in 2006. Climate change induced probable increases in temperatures and rainfall would arguably add to the aggregate … health. Using past data on disease cases, climate trajectories (temperature, precipitation) malarial risk is projected. This …The rising burden of disease counts as one of the most salient concerns of a warming climate. These risks are …

early-life shocks and the formation of human capital. In the case of our application, we can interpret the estimates as the …Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret … the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response behavior. To identify causal effects we can rely on exogenous …