THE NOTORIOUS MORAL LASSITUDE OF SOUTHERNERS:

Warmer temperatures are associated with significant drops in worker productivity, with a more than 2% drop in annualized output for each 1 degree Celsius increase in temperature, according to a new paper using data from manufacturers in India. 

The findings, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy, have serious implications for developing and manufacturing-oriented economies like India, which in recent years has suffered from deadly heat waves that scientists say were exacerbated by climate change. 

"Reduced labor productivity due to heat is a big deal, perhaps more so than we previously thought," said co-author Anant Sudarshan, an energy and environmental economist at the University of Chicago, in an interview. 

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