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Using data from 32 European countries for nearly 244 million live births between 1969 and 2021, this paper examines the effects of temperatures on birth rates. The results show that exposure to hot days slightly reduces birth rates five to eight months later, while much stronger negative effects...
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emerging market economies (EMEs), we study the impact of country-specific temperature shocks on a range of prices: consumer … results. Overall, our results suggest that temperature plays a non-negligible role in driving medium-term price developments …
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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 … test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period 1950-2014. Temperature and rainfall determine production possibilities …
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The effects of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and droughts are taken into account in both global and … extreme weather events, in particular, droughts and high temperatures, for the German power sector. Furthermore, we consider … how European policy addressed these severe risks. Our analysis is based on extensive datasets covering temperature and …
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a redistributive growth model by introducing exposure of households and firms to extreme weather events, that damage …
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vulnerable than richer ones. A meta-analysis of the impact of weather shocks reveals that studies, which relate economic growth … to temperature levels, cannot agree on the sign of the impact whereas studies, which make economic growth a function of … temperature change do agree on the sign but differ an order of magnitude in effect size. The former studies posit that climate …
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reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis … exogeneity of short-term daily temperature variations in a given tournament from the average temperature over the same tournament …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age …
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