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temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …
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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 … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …
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Research finds that hot weather causes a fall in birth rates nine months later. Evidence suggests that this decline in births is due to hot weather harming reproductive health around the time of conception. Birth rates only partially rebound after the initial decline. Moreover, the rebound...
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between temperature and GDP. …
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Products, Coal, Electricity) is expressed as a function of various factors, including temperature. Parameter values are … levels and sensitivity to temperature variations. These features make the model results especially valuable in the analysis …. Short- and long-run temperature elasticities of demand are estimated. …
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industrial users in OECD and (a few) non-OECD countries. It turns out that temperature has a very different influence on the … negatively to temperature increases, while industrial demand is insensitive to temperature increases. As to the service sector …, only electricity demand displays a mildly significant negative elasticity to temperature changes. …
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To post-process ensemble predictions to a particular location, often statistical methods are used, especially in complex terrain such as the Alps. When expanded to several stations, the post-processing has to be repeated at every station individually thus losing information about spatial...
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This paper studies the short-run impacts of temperature on human performance in the computer-mediated environment using … inChina, we distinguish the impacts of outdoor and indoor temperature and find that low temperatures below 5 ?C decrease game … are also key skills for productive activities. Our results draw attention to potential damages of extreme temperature on …
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with meteorological data on daily temperature realizations on a fine spatial level, I estimate the effect of high ambient … mean temperatures. Specifically, on a day with a mean temperature above 29.5êC, the daily visits for diabetes and …
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Hotter years are associated with lower economic output in developing countries. We show that the effect of temperature …
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