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wavelet transform to explore the time scale patterns in the relationship between the average ambient temperature and the … levels for the temperature time series and the number of deaths. The results are suggestive of a positive linear relationship …-degree-Celsius increase in the weekly average temperature during summer is accompanied by an increase in the weekly average number of deaths …
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temperature on store evaluations. Three evaluative dimensions emerged from the factor analysis: stimulation, upmarket positioning … and relaxation. A 2 x 2 x 3 experiment (lighting x perceived temperature x retail outlet) shows that lighting and its … interaction with perceived temperature influence stimulation and upmarket positioning. Perceived temperature has a direct impact …
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methods in addition to the FE estimator. We find that alcohol consumption, air temperature, and precipitation have the largest …
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More and more economists and politicians are advocating the use of comprehensive measures of well-being, on top of the usual national accounting measures, to assess the welfare of populations. Researchers using subjective well-being data should be aware of the potential biasing effects of the...
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Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change is also a threat to poverty reduction and economic growth and may unravel many of the development gains made in recent decades. Latin America and the Caribbean account for a...
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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction tool in the analysis of high-dimensional data. However, in many applications such as risk quantification in finance or climatology, one is interested in capturing the tail variations rather than variation around the mean. In...
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temperature and environmental factors, and it is extremely versatile in computing out-of-sample forecasts. …
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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 …
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We take a simple time-series approach to modeling and forecasting daily average temperature in U.S. cities, and we …, strong conditional variance dynamics, in daily average temperature, and it reveals sharp differences between the distribution … of temperature and the distribution of temperature surprises. As we argue, it also holds promise for producing the long …
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commonly used climate-viticulture indices (i.e., Average Growing Season Temperature, Growing Degree Days, Heliothermal Index … accomplished using the 1971 – 2000 PRISM 800-meter resolution dataset of climate temperature normal for the study area of 44 states …
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