Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study … changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health differences exist between deceased and surviving fetuses. Furthermore …

Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study … changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health differences exist between deceased and surviving fetuses. Furthermore …

sorting. We find substantial heterogeneity in the effects of extreme temperature exposure on birth outcomes. In particular …

We analyze the impact of in utero temperature exposure on the birth weight and prevalence of low birth weight using … during pregnancy decreases birth weight, but its impact on the probability of low birth weight is weaker. Exposure to one … additional hot day (mean temperature >25°C) during the gestation period reduces birth weight by 0.5 grams. The second and third …

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 …

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 …

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 … not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the …

characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … - 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household …