This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

Increased temperature-related mortality is predicted to be one of the largest contributors to future economic damages … from climate change globally, with declines in cold-related deaths in some regions outweighed by increases in heat …-related deaths in others. Changes in temperature could also affect non-fatal health outcomes, whose aggregate societal burden is …

ambient weather variations, mainly temperature and precipitation. We find that, compared with a broader range of moderate …Accurately assessing the impacts of climate change on each economic sector is essential for designing effective climate … policies. Although the impacts of climate change on the agricultural and industrial sectors have been abundantly explored …

empirically by drawing on methods from the household economics literature. The test results support the hypothesis that weather …We combine exogenous variation in temperature at the county-day level in the U.S. with daily time use data to examine … the effect of temperature on joint time use. We show that low temperatures reduce time spent with friends but increase …

empirically by drawing on methods from the household economics literature. The test results support the hypothesis that weather …We combine exogenous variation in temperature at the county-day level in the U.S. with daily time use data to examine … the effect of temperature on joint time use. We show that low temperatures reduce time spent with friends but increase …

concentrating or have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of … ambient temperature. This result is robust to including wind speed and air pollution in the analysis. There are no differences … between men and women. However, there is some heterogeneity in the magnitude of the temperature effect in other dimensions. In …

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 …

cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally representative longitudinal survey in China with weather data … according to the exact time and geographic location of their assessment, we show that exposure to a temperature above 32 °C on …

In this paper, we exploit exogenous variation in navigability of the Rhine river to analyze the impact of weather … weather events for business cycle analysis and contributes to gauging the costs of extreme weather events in advanced …