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

Adapting the 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, Deschenes, Olivier, Greenstone, Michael, Shapiro, Joseph S.
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013
Subjects:
climate change
health
adaptation
extreme temperature
air conditioning
mortality
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76739

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