Temperature and Human Capital in the Short- and Long-Run-厦门大学金融系

Temperature and Human Capital in the Short- and Long-Run
主讲人 Matthew Neidell 简介 <p>&nbsp;Abstract:</p> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>We provide the first estimates of the potential impact of climate change on human capital, focusing on the impacts from both short-run weather and long-run climate. Exploiting the longitudinal structure of the NLSY79 and random fluctuations in weather across interviews, we identify the effect of temperature in models with child-specific fixed effects. We find that short-run changes in temperature lead to statistically significant decreases in cognitive performance on math (but not reading) beyond 26C (78.8F). In contrast, our long-run analysis, which relies upon long-difference and rich cross-sectional models, find no statistically significant relationship between climate and human capital. This finding is consistent with the notion that adaptation, particularly compensatory behavior, plays a significant role in limiting the long run impacts from short run weather shocks.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.iza.org/en/papers/1635_14042015.pdf">Download the paper</a></div>
时间 2015-04-14(星期二)18:15-19:30 地点 N118 经济楼/Economics Building
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主讲人简介 <p>Associate Professor&nbsp;</p> <div>Department of Health Policy and Management&nbsp;</div> <div>Mailman School of Public Health&nbsp;</div> <div>Columbia University&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~mn2191/">Prof. Matthew Neidell' Homepage</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> 期数 "WISE-IZA" Seminar Series No. 117 (No.4 of 2015 Spring)
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