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Nighttime heat events increase distress, with poor adults especially vulnerable to extreme heat events. Extreme heat also reduced birth weight, particularly in rural areas, and if it occurs unseasonably.
In a study evaluating matched Individual Development Account (IDA) initiatives no significant, long-term effects in their mental or physical health, as compared to controls, potentially because the matching amount was relatively small. Further evaluation is needed.
This paper proposes strategies for defining, identifying, and estimating features of treatment-effect distributions in contexts where multiple outcomes are of interest.