{"id":14587,"date":"2016-09-30T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14587"},"modified":"2016-09-30T02:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:08:03","slug":"climate-change-may-make-us-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/climate-change-may-make-us-dumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change May Make Us Dumber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/093016_0606_ClimateChan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jisung Park did a remarkable study on the impact that heat has on academic performance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data indicates that if on the day of an exam, temperatures are as high as 32 degrees Celsius, then students will score 4.5% less on their exams.<\/li>\n<li>Having a school year with five more hot days than normal, causes students in that classroom to lose $37,000 in lifetime earnings.<\/li>\n<li>All of this is particularly concerning since in cities such as New York, fewer than 62% of classrooms have air conditioning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full Harvard summary <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/jisungpark\/files\/executive_summary_for_policymakers_-_heat_stress_and_human_capital_production_-_j_park_2016_b.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/09\/dont-take-test-hot-polluted-day.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jisung Park did a remarkable study on the impact that heat has on academic performance: Data indicates that if on the day of an exam, temperatures are as high as 32 degrees Celsius, then students will score 4.5% less on their exams. Having a school year with five more hot days than normal, causes students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/093016_0606_ClimateChan1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14589,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions\/14589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}