Extreme heat and suicide watch incidents among incarcerated men

DH Cloud, B Williams, R Haardörfer… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Extreme heat poses a distinct risk to the 2.1 million incarcerated people in the
United States, who have disparately high rates of behavioral health conditions. Suicide is a …

Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime

F Cohen, F Gonzalez - American Economic Journal: Economic …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
The correlation between hot weather and crime is well documented but not fully understood.
We combine millions of administrative records, victimization surveys on unreported crime …

Temperature and convictions: evidence from India

TA Craigie, V Taraz, M Zapryanova - Environment and Development …, 2023 - cambridge.org
High temperatures have been shown to affect human cognition and decision-making in a
variety of settings. In this paper, we explore the extent to which higher temperatures affect …

Thermal (In) equity and incarceration: A necessary nexus for geographers

AR Colucci, DJ Vecellio… - Environment and Planning …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite overall societal progress in reducing adverse impacts of heat and cold, incarcerated
populations remain highly vulnerable to environmental stressors. Incarcerated populations …

Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

M Obolensky, M Tabellini, C Taylor - 2024 - nber.org
This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and
establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial …

Don't sweat it: Ambient temperature does not affect social behavior and perception

JS Krause, G Brandt, U Schmidt, D Schunk - Journal of Economic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Literature suggests that human perception and behavior vary with physical temperature. We
conducted an experiment to study how different ambient temperatures impact social …

Thermal comfort and retail sales: A big data analysis of extreme temperature's impact on brick-and-mortar stores

J Yoo, J Eom, Y Zhou - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2024 - Elsevier
The effect of weather on retail sales has long been of great interest to both the business and
academic fields. This study investigated the impact of extreme temperatures on brick-and …

Avoiding a grim future: The climate crisis and its effects on human aggression and violence

A Miles-Novelo, CA Anderson - Advances in Environmental and …, 2023 - lidsen.com
As the climate crisis has progressed, scientists have begun to ask," How does a rapidly
warming ecosystem impact human behavior?" As aggression scholars and non-professional …

Access to guns in the heat of the moment: more restrictive gun laws mitigate the effect of temperature on violence

J Colmer, JL Doleac - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown
that higher temperatures increase violent behavior. We consider whether restricting the …

Incidental Adaptation: The Role of Non-climate Regulations

AM Bento, N Miller, M Mookerjee… - … and Resource Economics, 2023 - Springer
When a non-climate institution, policy, or regulation corrects a pre-existing market failure that
would be exacerbated by climate change, it may also incidentally induce climate adaptation …