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We take a simple time-series approach to modeling and forecasting daily average temperature in U.S. cities, and we …, strong conditional variance dynamics, in daily average temperature, and it reveals sharp differences between the distribution … of temperature and the distribution of temperature surprises. As we argue, it also holds promise for producing the long …
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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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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction tool in the analysis of high-dimensional data. However, in many applications such as risk quantification in finance or climatology, one is interested in capturing the tail variations rather than variation around the mean. In...
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This study considers the relationship between temperature and occupational health. The results indicate that both high …. While research on the effect of temperature on mortality finds substantial capacity for adaption with current technology …
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production of corn crops during 2007-2017 in correlation with the multi-annual fluctuation of the average air temperature, as …
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Previous research has found that unusually hot temperature in a given month reduces birth rates 8-10 months later. We … analyze the relationship between ambient temperature and sexual activity. We show that on a cold day sexual activity is … significantly lower, but hot temperatures do not have an effect. Performing placebo tests using temperature data one year ahead or …
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To investigate the link between rising global temperature and global energy use, we estimate an energy demand model … that is driven by temperature changes, prices and income. The estimation is based on an unbalanced panel of 157 countries …-linearities in the impact of temperature on energy demand as well as temperature-income interactions. We find that oil, gas and …
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random year-to-year fluctuations in ambi-ent temperature within counties. We find that the provision of primary care through …
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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making …. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated … by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics), who found strong effects of temperature on judges' decisions in …
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socioeconomic factors such as income. We revisit the temperature-violence relationship and show that cash transfers attenuate one …
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