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, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that …We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so … associated with a 6.3 per cent decrease in household savings and a 1.4 per cent increase in household borrowing. In the case of …
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of … climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and … exposure, but a partial rebound is observed after that. Absent adaptation, climate change is projected to increase seasonal …
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- 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household … and household controls are included. We find that exposure to changing climate in utero and in the month of conception …This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …
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, allowing us to address identification issues endemic in the climate change literature related to adaptation and location … sorting. We find substantial heterogeneity in the effects of extreme temperature exposure on birth outcomes. In particular …
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, consistent with long-run adaptation to climate, sales sensitivity to weather declines with historical norms and variability of … weather. Short-run adaptation to weather shocks is dominated by changes in what people buy and how they buy it, with little … intertemporal substitution. Over four weeks, a one-standard deviation one-day weather shock shifts sales by about 10 percent. While …
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I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect. …
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We estimate the impact of temperatures on work-related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather … relies on the plausible exogeneity of short-term daily temperature variations in a given spatial unit. We find that both high … weather conditions on work-related accident rates is larger for men, in manufacturing and service sectors, and for workplace …
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We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross …-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county … weather shocks hitting individual regions. We also show that (i) taking into account economic interconnections between states …
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We estimate the impact of temperature extremes on mortality in Vietnam, using daily data on temperatures and monthly …
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Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes …, particularly in a developing country setting. Analyzing a rich database consisting of household and school surveys, test scores …, and temperature and air pollution data over the past decade for Viet Nam, we find that a 1 μg/m3 increase in PM2 …
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