Barreca, Alan; Clay, Karen; Deschenes, Olivier; … - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2015
This paper builds on Barreca et al.’s (2013) finding that over the course of the 20th century the proliferation of residential air conditioning led to a remarkable decline in mortality due to extreme temperature days in the United States. Using panel data on monthly mortality rates of...