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We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the …
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This study analyzes the effects of exposure to tropical storms and hurricanes during pregnancy on children’s anthropometric measurements taken within the first five years of life. It combines destruction indexes at the district level with 13 yearly rounds of household level surveys from...
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We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912766
identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) and hot days (>30°C) decrease total … adaptation and mitigation measures, and that temperature increases may exacerbate the socio-economic consequences of low …
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We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using … administrative data from state child protective service agencies. Leveraging short-term weather variation, we find increases in … analysis identifies neglect as the temperature-sensitive maltreatment type, and we do not find evidence that adaptation via air …
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This study examines the impact of extreme weather events on violence against children inflicted by adult household …
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fluctuations in heat exposure within cities. The results demonstrate that exposure to extremely hot weather during pregnancy … extreme temperature exposure during pregnancy undermines maternal health. Our analysis proposes a new channel through which … extreme weather generates health and economic costs …
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decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China …
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labor supply model with German time-use data and weather information. Our results provide some evidence on an interday labor …
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In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise their future behaviour and cognitive development have greatly affected patterns of time allocation among both working and non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare...
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