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, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that …We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so … associated with a 6.3 per cent decrease in household savings and a 1.4 per cent increase in household borrowing. In the case of …
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storms, heavy rain, and floods. Concern about future climate change on the household level has a substantial negative impact …This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning … future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households …
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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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- 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 …This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …
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We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A … month with an average temperature above 30 °C implies export losses of around three percent. These effects are increasing in …
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, allowing us to address identification issues endemic in the climate change literature related to adaptation and location … sorting. We find substantial heterogeneity in the effects of extreme temperature exposure on birth outcomes. In particular …
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workers to report an injury that they would not have reported in the absence of heat. We investigate how temperature affects … heterogeneity in the temperature effects, which seem to be influenced by incentives. Specifically, when a male player is losing at … the beginning of a crucial (second) fourth set in (best-of-three) best-of-five matches, the temperature effect is much …
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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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, consistent with long-run adaptation to climate, sales sensitivity to weather declines with historical norms and variability of … weather. Short-run adaptation to weather shocks is dominated by changes in what people buy and how they buy it, with little … intertemporal substitution. Over four weeks, a one-standard deviation one-day weather shock shifts sales by about 10 percent. While …
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the household. We find that, relative to households in the control group, adoption of LPG stoves reduced charcoal … deforestation of 0.04 ha/household/year. However, providing subsidies for stove purchases resulted in a larger reduction in charcoal ….03 ha/household/year respectively. A social cost-benefit analysis suggests that the cost of both programs is far below the …
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