Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience: Evidence from a representative sample of 42,152 Indian households

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Heyes, Anthony; Saberian, Soodeh
• 署名单位: University of Ottawa; University of Exeter; University of Manitoba
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102786
• 发表日期: 2022
• 关键词: temperature; Effective labor supply; Climate impacts; Climate resilience; mitigation

摘要

The ability of people to work underpins most economic outcomes. Using data from the nationally representative India Human Development Survey (IHDS-II), with pre-scheduling of interview locations ensuring plausibly random assignment of temperature treatment to respondent, we evidence the impact of short-term (withinmonth) high temperatures on self-evaluated ability to work, and how that impact depends on individual living conditions. Other things equal a hot day (one in which maximum daytime temperature exceeds 37.7. C (100. F)) increases inability to work across the month by about 7%, or 1/20th of a day. Electricity to the home and cooler ownership have important but partial protective effects, we find no such evidence for piped water supply.