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High Temperatures and Workplace Injuries

Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 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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Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?

Molitor, David; White, Corey - 2023

Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is …

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Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002

Bruckner, Tim A.; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Smith, Kirk R.; … - 2014

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...

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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Deschenes, Olivier; … - 2015

A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the entire 20th century in the United...

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Temperature and Mental Health: Evidence from the Spectrum of Mental Health Outcomes

Mullins, Jamie; White, Corey - 2019

This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …

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Water scarcity and birth outcomes in the Brazilian semiarid

Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …

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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid

Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Deschenes, Olivier; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002

Bruckner, Tim A.; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Smith, Kirk R.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Working Under the Sun: The Role of Occupation in Temperature-Related Mortality in Mexico

Bressler, R. Daniel; Papp, Anna; Sarmiento, Luis; … - 2025

We investigate how occupation influences the relationship between temperature and mortality in Mexico. Using multiple decades of nationwide death records---which include information on occupation---linked to local weather data, we find that heat-related mortality risk varies sharply by...

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