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Cosaert, Sam; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023

selves have different tastes for time alone, time with family, and time with friends. Weather conditions can change the … empirically by drawing on methods from the household economics literature. The test results support the hypothesis that weather …

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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. - 2014

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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The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Temperature Extremes on Birth Outcomes

Chen, Xi - 2020

This paper investigates the effects of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures on birth outcomes – specifically, the log of birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight – using a nationally representative dataset in rural China. During the span of our data (i.e., 1991–2000), indoor...

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Extreme Temperatures and Time-Use in China

Garg, Teevrat - 2019

decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China …

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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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Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates

Barreca, Alan I. - 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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Robust Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Models Using?-Contamination : an Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Chaturvedi, Anoop; … - 2023

effects, with cross-correlated effects Ã la Chamberlain, for the Hausman-Taylor world and for dynamic panel data models with …

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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat - 2017

This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...

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Feelings in Travel Episodes and Extreme Temperatures

Belloc, Ignacio; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2023

relationship between weather conditions and the feelings reported by individuals during daily travel episodes. We use data from the …-level weather information. Our findings indicate an association between extreme temperatures and certain measures of affective well …

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