Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather …

consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … and consumption surveys, we find that temperature change has larger impacts in the short term and more impacts on chronic …

effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. Our innovative approach allows for … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …

-2018), we explore the relationship between temperature and workplace safety and its implications for labor market inequality …. Hotter temperature increases workplace injuries significantly, causing approximately 20,000 injuries per year. The effects … temperature (e.g. falling from heights), consistent with cognitive or cost-related channels. The risks are substantially larger …

– 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household … characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non …

reduces the short-run likelihood of institutional change toward democracy. Output contractions due to adverse weather shocks …

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …