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Author: Mooney, Chris
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1. Mooney, Chris
Paper Finds a Surprising Link between Warmer Temperatures and Math Test Scores
Washington Post, May 12, 2015, Energy and Environment.
Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/12/paper-finds-a-surprising-link-between-warm-temperatures-and-math-test-scores/?utm_term=.0021c4fba45d
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Washington Post
Keyword(s): Environment, Pollution/Urban Density; Geocoded Data; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Testing Conditions

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[Excerpted from the news article] Drawing on existing literature on how warmer temperatures can affect the brain, the researchers examined children's test scores from the NLSY. The dataset allowed them to overlay test scores with the average temperature in the county where they lived on the day of testing. Math performance declined significantly, though reading scores did not.

Note: This news item was based on a 2015 NBER working paper later published as the following journal article: Zivin, Joshua Graff, Solomon M. Hsiang and Matthew J. Neidell. "Temperature and Human Capital in the Short- and Long-Run." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 5,1 (January 2018): 77-105.

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Mooney, Chris. "Paper Finds a Surprising Link between Warmer Temperatures and Math Test Scores." Washington Post, May 12, 2015, Energy and Environment.