Alan Barreca - Research

Selected Publications

High temperatures and electricity disconnections for low-income homes in California

Nature Energy | 2022

With R.J. Park & P. Stainier

The impact of high ambient temperatures on delivery timing and gestational lengths

Nature Climate Change | 2019

With J. Schaller

Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates

Demography | 2018

With O. Deschenes & M. Guldi

Does hot weather affect human fertility?

IZA World of Labor | 2017

Solo authored

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Journal of Political Economy | 2016

With K. Clay, O. Deschenes, M. Greenstone, & J. Shapiro

Success is Something to Sneeze At: Influenza Mortality in Cities that Participate in the Super Bowl

American Journal of Health Economics | 2016

With C. Stoecker & N. Sanders

Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression Discontinuity Designs

Economic Inquiry | 2016

With J. Lindo & G. Waddell

Convergence in Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004

American Economic Review P&P | 2015

With K. Clay, O. Deschenes, M. Greenstone, & J. Shapiro

A Pint for a Pound? Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Birth Outcomes

Health Economics | 2015

With M. Page

Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the United States in the 1930s

Explorations in Economic History | 2012

With P. Fishback & S. Kantor

Absolute Humidity, Temperature, and Influenza Mortality: 30 Years of County-Level Evidence from the United States

American Journal of Epidemiology | 2012

With J. Shimshack

Climate Change, Humidity, and Mortality in the United States

Journal of Environmental Economics & Management | 2012

Solo authored

Saving Babies? Revisiting the Effect of Very Low Birth Weight Classification

Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2011

With M. Guldi, J. Lindo, & G. Waddell

The Long-Term Economic Impact of In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to Malaria

Journal of Human Resources | 2010

Solo authored

Popular Press

Media Coverage

Alan's work has received extensive media coverage from major outlets including:

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Additional Resources

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Selected Publications

Popular Press

Pregnant women have a higher risk of delivering early on unseasonably hot days

L.A.'s dry air is a seldom-discussed threat to public health

Climate change's hotter weather could reduce human fertility

Media Coverage

Additional Resources