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effect of poverty on mental health by exploiting a natural experiment induced by weather variability across 440 districts in … Indonesia (N = 577,548). Precipitation anomaly in two climatological seasons is used as an instrument for poverty status, which …
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thesis, the author uses the 50.359 participants containing dataset GlücksTREND2013 to test whether (1) the weather conditions …
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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 … regions to a climate shock is partially adapted in the long-run. …
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Rainfall and temperature are the two important weather factors that affect crop yields due to their direct and indirect … or seasonal), in multiple regression analysis to measure weather impact on crop yield where rainfall and temperature are … weather-dependent, the study has advocated the incorporation of ‘aridity index’ variable in the regression model. The use …
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Bicycle usage can be affected by colder weather, precipitation, and excessive heat. The research presented here … analyzes the effect of weather on the use of the Washington, DC, bikeshare system, exploiting a dataset of all trips made on … the system. Hourly weather data, including temperature, rainfall, snow, wind, fog, and humidity levels are linked to …
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This introductory article presents the special Discussion and Debate volume 'From black swans to dragon-kings, is there life beyond power laws?'. We summarize and put in perspective the contributions into three main themes: (i) mechanisms for dragon-kings, (ii) detection of dragon-kings and...
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While an emerging literature cites weather shocks as migration determinants, scant evidence exists on how such … the impact of weather-driven internal migration on labor markets in Nepal. An increase of 1 percentage point in net …
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rain-fed agriculture, the issue of having access to weather forecast information is very important. A contingent valuation … method was used to elicit the amount farmers are willing to pay for accessing unpriced weather forecast information in the … Savelugu-Nanton Municipality of the Northern Region. Farmers were also asked to rank weather forecast variables according to …
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