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SUBMITTER: Obradovich N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6126740 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Obradovich Nick N Tingley Dustin D Rahwan Iyad I
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180813 35
Human workers ensure the functioning of governments around the world. The efficacy of human workers, in turn, is linked to the climatic conditions they face. Here we show that the same weather that amplifies human health hazards also reduces street-level government workers' oversight of these hazards. To do so, we employ US data from over 70 million regulatory police stops between 2000 and 2017, from over 500,000 fatal vehicular crashes between 2001 and 2015, and from nearly 13 million food safe ...[more]