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The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2023

High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental health or physical health is worse when it is too warm. Workers may experience difficulties concentrating or they have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We...

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High temperatures and workplace injuries

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2024

High temperatures can have a negative effect on workplace safety for a variety of reasons. Discomfort and reduced concentration caused by heat can lead to workers making mistakes and injuring themselves. Discomfort can also be an incentive for workers to report an injury that they would not have...

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Temperature and low-stakes cognitive performance

Zhang, Xin; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2023

cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally representative longitudinal survey in China with weather data …

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Extreme temperatures and non-work at work

Belloc, Ignacio; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2025

Understanding the determinants of worker effort is central, as even small changes in productivity can have significant implications for economic growth and labor market performance. This study examines the relationship between extreme temperatures and work effort-proxied by non-work time while...

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Extreme weather events and climate change : economic impacts and adaptation policies

Ferreira, Susana - 2024

This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events …

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Does access to health care mitigate environmental damages?

Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019

Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...

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The effect of outside temperature on criminal court sentencing decisions

Evans, Sally; Siminski, Peter - 2020

Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics),...

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The impact of climate change on mortality in the United States : benefits and costs of adaptation

Deschênes, Olivier - 2022

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...

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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013

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 …

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Maybe next month? : temperature shocks, climate change, and dynamic adjustments in birth rates

Barreca, Alan I.; Deschênes, Olivier; Guldi, Melanie - 2015

Dynamic adjustments could be a useful strategy for mitigating the costs of acute environmental shocks when timing is not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United...

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