Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children
利用行政数据估计温度对幼儿虐待的影响，发现高温增加虐待案例，空调可缓解，揭示气候变化对弱势群体的额外成本。
Abstract We estimate the impacts of temperature on alleged and substantiated child maltreatment among young children using administrative data from state child protective services agencies. Leveraging short-term weather variation, we find increases in the number of young children involved in cases of alleged and substantiated maltreatment during hot periods. Additional analysis identifies neglect as the temperature-sensitive maltreatment type, and we find some evidence that adaptation via air conditioning mitigates this relationship. Given that climate change will increase exposure to extreme temperatures, our findings speak to additional costs of climate change among the most vulnerable.