Adaptation

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 …

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Steering Adaptation: Firm, Labor Contracts, and Driver Responses to Heat in the Trucking Industry

We study how firms shape workers' adaptation to climate risk. Using real-time GPS and driver-monitoring data on 10,000 truck drivers over 15 months, we show that exposure to …

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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 …

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