Objective To assess whether exposure to high temperatures in pregnancy is associated with
increased risk for preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth. Design Systematic review and …

Climate change can have detrimental effects on child health and wellbeing. Despite the
imperative for a fuller understanding of how climate change affects child health and …

Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality-temperature
relationships and extrapolate them to countries without data today and into a future with …

BACKGROUND For centuries, thinkers have considered whether and how climatic
conditions influence the nature of societies and the performance of economies. A …

We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air conditioning may mitigate this
effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million students who retook the PSATs show …

Most regulations designed to reduce environmental externalities impose costs on
individuals and firms. A large and growing literature examines whether these costs are …

Climate change is one of the major global health threats to the world's population. It is
brought on by global warming due in large part to increasing levels of greenhouse gases …

This article reviews the recent literature on the economics of exposure to temperature
extremes. There is growing evidence from both micro and macro studies that in the short run …

Evidence suggests that households adapt to hot weather by employing energy-intensive
technologies, such as air conditioning. Ensuing energy expenses might cause some low …

We estimate the effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between
1931 and 2010. We find that days with a mean temperature above 80 F cause a large …