Meierrieks Daniel
Is temperature adversely related to economic growth?
Evidence on the short-run and the long-run links from sub-national data
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We investigate the effect of rising temperatures on economic development, using sub-national data for approximately 1,500 sub-national regions in 81 countries from the 1950s to the 2010s. Accounting for region- and time-fixed factors by mea...
The Link between Regional Temperature and Regional Income:
Econometric Evidence with Sub-National Data
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We study the effect of temperature on economic development on the sub-national level, employing cross-sectional data for up to 15,533 sub-national units from two distinct sources. In contrast to the existing cross-country literature on the ...