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We study the effect of temperature on economic development on the sub-national level, employing cross-sectional data … temperature-income relationship, our setting allows us to exploit sub-national heterogeneity through the inclusion of country … fixed effects and mitigate omitted variable bias. We find no negative relationship between regional temperature and four …
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This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … 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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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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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so …, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that … matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with household information over the period 2008 to 2016. We find that an …
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A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing … technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … mean temperature exceeding 80° F has declined by about 70%. Almost the entire decline occurred after 1960. There are about …
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