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We estimate the impact of temperatures on work-related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather … and cold temperatures impair occupational health by increasing workplace injury rates. The positive effect of warmer … weather conditions on work-related accident rates is larger for men, in manufacturing and service sectors, and for workplace …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental …-specific and skill-specific. Older and less-skilled players suffer more from high temperatures than younger and more skilled … there is adaptation to high temperatures: the effects are smaller if the heat lasts for several days. …
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climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and … 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot temperatures reduces the conception rate in the first few weeks following the … 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 … trajectory in which countervailing measures are not adopted to address climate change, climate change will be responsible for an …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities because workers may experience difficulties … negative temperature effect is smaller if the heat lasts, i.e. there is some adaptation to high temperatures. …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental …-specific and skill-specific. Older and less-skilled players suffer more from high temperatures than younger and more skilled … there is adaptation to high temperatures: the effects are smaller if the heat lasts for several days. …
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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 … - 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 …
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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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This paper investigates the effects of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures on birth outcomes - specifically, the …, allowing us to address identification issues endemic in the climate change literature related to adaptation and location …
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