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Temperature and the Seasonality of Births

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Temperature and Environmental Effects on the Testis

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 286))

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The relation between human fertility and temperature has been the subject of extensive examination, with surprisingly inconclusive results. Despite the a priori plausibility that temperature affects fertility through behavioral or biological channels, existing attempts to identify these effects have had only limited success.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA

    David A. Lam

  2. Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, USA

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Lam, D.A., Miron, J.A. (1991). Temperature and the Seasonality of Births. In: Zorgniotti, A.W. (eds) Temperature and Environmental Effects on the Testis. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 286. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5913-5_7

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