Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
It has long been observed that hot countries tend to be poor. A correlation between heat and poverty was noted as early as Charles de Montesquieu (1750) and Ellsworth Huntington (1915), and it has been repeatedly demonstrated in contemporary data (e.g., William D. Nordhaus 2006). Looking at a...
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American Economic Association
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61740 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-4631 |