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We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning mitigates this effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million PSAT-retakers show hotter school days in years before the test reduce scores, with extreme heat being particularly damaging. Weekend and summer heat...
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between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops is suggested by natural science literature. We use Indonesia as a case …
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financial protection from climate risk via catastrophic weather risk transfer tools. Done well, a weather index insurance (WII … for droughts for rice production in Indonesia. To reduce basis risk, we construct district specific indices that are based … level data on past agricultural productivity and weather conditions, we present an algorithm that generates an effective and …
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average treatment effects and strong spatial spillovers, particularly for weather shocks. Moreover, substantial heterogeneity …
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vulnerable than richer ones. A meta-analysis of the impact of weather shocks reveals that studies, which relate economic growth … implied by studies of the impact of climate change is close to the growth impact estimated as a function of weather shocks …
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We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international …) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for … the specification of weather anomalies that maximizes the goodness of fit of our empirical model. We then use this best …
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I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … in both rich and poor countries; positively in cold countries and negatively in hot ones. Weather anomalies reduce …
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Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records, we...
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We leverage U.S. county-day temperature variation combined with daily time use data to examine the effect of temperature on the timing of work. We find that warmer (colder) temperatures increase (decrease) working time during the night and decrease (increase) working time in the morning. These...
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affects local spillovers in case of a weather shock. Second, we use road infrastructure as a proxy for overall connectivity to …Extreme weather may give rise to the relocation of economic activity towards nearby locations. But how are the economic … effects of weather events transmitted between locations? And, which role does the interconnection of small economic units play …
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