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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with...
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This paper evaluates the relative importance of natural and human factors in shaping public awareness of climate change. I compare the predictive efficacy of natural factors, represented by air temperature deviations from historical norms, and human factors, encompassing noteworthy political...
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
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significant. Although weather panel studies find high temperature events lead to large annual damage, high temperature events have …
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot...
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The effects of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and droughts are taken into account in both global and … extreme weather events, in particular, droughts and high temperatures, for the German power sector. Furthermore, we consider … droughts. We stress that increasing frequencies of such extreme weather events will aggravate the observed problem, especially …
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looking at how people react to short-term variations in weather. Research suggests rising temperatures will reduce time spent …
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … the perception of weather impacts through questionnaire survey to the general public. With regard to the individuals … impacts of weather extremes on their daily habits at work, at home, in their leisure activities, on their transport patterns …
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … modelling of the impact of weather, through quantitative analysis of activity time series. In particular, the core sectors …
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In this study we analyze the relationship between heat events and mortality in Germany. The main research questions are: Does heat lead to rising mortality and if yes, are the effects persistent or compensated for in the near future? Furthermore, we consider differences between heat effects in...
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