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many ways. Since sleep is a basic human need and part of everyone's life, the question of how temperature affects human … sleep naturally arises. This paper examines the effect of daily mean temperature on sleep duration using nationally … representative Hungarian time use surveys between 1976 and 2010. Compared to a mild temperature (5-10 °C), colder temperatures do not …
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This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of …. However, some newborns may experience non-negligible consequences because of the altering in utero temperature exposure due to …
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This study explores the link between daily weather conditions and individual engagement in physical activities within … the context of the climate emergency. Using ATUS data from 2003-2022, alongside detailed daily-county weather data, the … physical activity across varying weather conditions amid the ongoing climate emergency. …
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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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This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the impacts of temperature and climate change on human pregnancies … year-to-year fluctuation in temperature. The insights that emerge from the review highlight that exposure to heat in the …, understanding the relationship between temperature and pregnancy-related outcomes is far from perfect. Importantly, the potential …
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- 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household … 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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Evidence of the relationship between temperature during pregnancy and human embryo mortality is limited. Most … pregnancy temperature exposure on the clinically unobserved pregnancy loss rate. We use administrative data of clinically … impact of temperature on the clinically unobserved pregnancy loss rate from the estimated effects on the clinically observed …
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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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Using data from 32 European countries for nearly 244 million live births between 1969 and 2021, this paper examines the effects of temperatures on birth rates. The results show that exposure to hot days slightly reduces birth rates five to eight months later, while much stronger negative effects...
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