Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Adaptation is the only strategy that is guaranteed to be part of the world's climate strategy. Using the most comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th century, this paper makes two primary discoveries. First, we find that the mo...

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Main Authors: Barreca, Alan, Clay, Karen, Deschênes, Olivier, Greenstone, Michael, Shapiro, Joseph
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT CEEPR 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76236