Climate Adaptation

Extreme Heat

Steering Adaptation: Firms, Labor Contracts, and Driver Behavior in Trucking

We study how firms and labor contracts shape workers' adaptation to climate risk. Using real-time GPS and AI driver-monitoring data on truck drivers, we show that extreme heat …

wenzhi-ding
•
Read more
Electricity

Climate Adaptation in Distorted Electricity Markets

We study climate adaptation in a distorted electricity market in one of the world's most heat-exposed cities, Karachi, Pakistan. Poor households respond to extreme heat by …

husnain-ahmad
•
Read more
Adaptation

Heat Adaptation and Human Performance in a Warming Climate

Labor productivity, human capital formation, and income growth decline amid hot ambient temperatures. The implications of such temperature sensitivity for climate change damages …

steven-sexton
•
Read more