Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: Evidence from a half million chinese manufacturing plants

• Published in: Journal of environmental economics and management Vol. 88; pp. 1 - 17
• Main Authors: Zhang, Peng, Deschenes, Olivier, Meng, Kyle, Zhang, Junjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.03.2018
• Subjects: China; Climate change; Manufacturing; Productivity; Productivity; Q54; Climate change; Q56; O14; China; L60; Manufacturing; O44

This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998–2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted U-shaped relationship between temperature and TFP and show t...