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estimates of the income and short run weather sensitivity of air conditioner adoption across urban areas for 29 Chinese … provincial entities. We show that the adoption decision displays significant income and weather sensitivity in the short run …
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We investigate the impact of short-term weather and long-term climate on self-reported life satisfaction using panel … data. We find robust evidence that day-to-day weather variation impacts life satisfaction by a similar magnitude to … present evidence that weather bias arises because of the cognitive challenge of reporting life satisfaction. Consistent with …
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communities in the face of increasingly extreme weather events. The other is recurrent humanitarian crises, especially traced to …
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analysis is based on a 30-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2997 US counties. I identify the effect of weather …
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assistance. This paper contributes by assessing the economics of adaptation to extreme weather events. [Working Paper 199] …
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Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors. Tourism is obviously related to climate, as tourists prefer spending time outdoors and travel to enjoy the sun or landscape. It is therefore surprising that the tourism literature pays little attention to climate and climatic...
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The role of weather in crop production at field is central to understanding the impact of climate change on agriculture … field effect of weather on crop production at the regional scale with unobserved producer behavior. We took a systematic … empirical application of our approach to spring wheat production found spatially heterogeneous effect of weather and climate …
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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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