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This paper studies the short-run impacts of temperature on human performance in the computer-mediated environment using … inChina, we distinguish the impacts of outdoor and indoor temperature and find that low temperatures below 5 ?C decrease game … are also key skills for productive activities. Our results draw attention to potential damages of extreme temperature on …
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Despite the increasing importance of occupations that rely heavily on interpersonal interaction, the impact of heat on team production relative to individual production remains largely unexplored. Heat can affect team and individual production in distinct ways, potentially increasing aggression,...
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Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these sectors by reducing physical capacity. This study...
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occurred in children under five years old. Changes in climatic exposure such as temperature and precipitation makes malaria one …, we estimate that the global optimal temperature maximizing all-age malaria mortality is 20.6, lower than previously … predicted in the literature. While in the case of child mortality, a significantly lower optimum temperature of 19.3° is …
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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 …
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identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (>30°C) decrease total … adaptation and mitigation measures, and that temperature increases may exacerbate the socio-economic consequences of low …
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temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …
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between temperature and GDP. …
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Previous research has found that unusually hot temperature in a given month reduces birth rates 8-10 months later. We … analyze the relationship between ambient temperature and sexual activity. We show that on a cold day sexual activity is … significantly lower, but hot temperatures do not have an effect. Performing placebo tests using temperature data one year ahead or …
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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 … evidence of the effect of temperature on joint time use being location-dependent. We rationalize this finding using a model in …
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