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’ adaptation behavior in response to indoor heat stress during summer months. Providing detailed information of household …-economic groups, an increase of one degree Celsius in average summer temperature is associated with a rise of 2.3 percentage points in …
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a theoretical framework where household belief-updating about the climate rationalizes household learning about the … differentially more likely to adopt central air conditioning units than those less exposed, controlling for historical climate. Using … climate that cannot be explained by myopia or alternative channels …
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This paper explores the impact of extreme weather exposures on the financial outcomes of low-income households. Using a … temperature days-both hot and cold-lead to surges in demand for payday loans. An increase in the number of days with extreme heat …
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-in-differences setting, we find that CEOs’ exposure to abnormally hot temperature leads to a decrease in corporate carbon emissions intensity …. Our results shed light on the role played by CEOs’ perception of the reality of climate change in reducing corporate …
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irreversible climate impacts, called a tipping point, occurs. Tax paths are compared with a cost-minimising approach where an upper-temperature …Methane abatement and geoengineering have a short-lived effect on temperature compared with carbon abatement. Different … optimal tax paths for these actions arise in a cost-benefit framework with an unknown temperature threshold where severe and …
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emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate …-based method for calculating the costs of climate change from extreme weather differs fundamentally from other approaches to …Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national …
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emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate …-based method for calculating the costs of climate change from extreme weather differs fundamentally from other approaches to …Extreme weather events have significant adverse costs for individuals, firms, communities, regional, and national …
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results suggest that climate-economy models may underestimate the costs of climate change by neglecting to account for reduced … between temperature and GDP. …
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effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. Our innovative approach allows for … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … temperatures due to climate change may reduce population growth rates in the coming century. As an added cost, climate change will …
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Evidence of the relationship between temperature during pregnancy and human embryo mortality is limited. Most … pregnancy temperature exposure on the clinically unobserved pregnancy loss rate. We use administrative data of clinically … impact of temperature on the clinically unobserved pregnancy loss rate from the estimated effects on the clinically observed …
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