Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171183 
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2017
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[Journal:] IZA World of Labor [ISSN:] 2054-9571 [Article No.:] 375 [Publisher:] Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) [Place:] Bonn [Year:] 2017
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Research finds that hot weather causes a fall in birth rates nine months later. Evidence suggests that this decline in births is due to hot weather harming reproductive health around the time of conception. Birth rates only partially rebound after the initial decline. Moreover, the rebound shifts births toward summer months, harming infant health by increasing third trimester exposure to hot weather. Worse infant health raises health care costs in the short term as well as reducing labor productivity in the longer term, possibly due to lasting physiological harm from the early life injury.
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fertility
birth rates
temperature
climate change
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