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decisions over the past 30 years at the county-level. We match this information with daily data on temperature and soil moisture … levels of moisture necessary to fully offset the season-expanding effect of a temperature rise of 3ºC would need to be very …
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African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering slave supply costs. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which predicts adverse outcomes today. We use an annual panel of African...
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show that a typical port exported fewer slaves in a year when the local temperature was warmer than normal. This result is …
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biological significance: temperature, water, UV-B radiation.</p><p>Low diversity ecosystems are expected to be more vulnerable to …
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: temperature, water, UV-B radiation.Low diversity ecosystems are expected to be more vulnerable to global changes than high …
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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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compiling a unique panel on irrigated single-season rice and daily weather data. We found that temperature and solar radiation …/subtropical regions, we discovered that higher daily minimum temperature during the vegetative stage increased rice yield in China …. Consistent with other studies, higher daily maximum temperature during the vegetative and ripening stages reduced rice yield in …
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We use cross-country data to explore whether temperature and rainfall shocks trigger violent conflict, or not. We …
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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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test whether there are threshold effects between temperature and mortality, using a panel of 78 major cities in 22 OECD … countries for 1990-2008. From the empirical analysis, we find that the relationship between temperature and mortality has three … threshold effects, namely 15.21℉ (-9.33℃), 46.97℉ (8.32℃), and 87.53℉ (30.85℃). If the temperature is below 15.21℉ (-9.33℃), the …
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