<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gupta, Ridhima</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Somanathan, Eswaran</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Heat, Climate Control, and Worker Absences</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Land Economics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026-03-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">223-235</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3368/le.102.2.082724-0076R1</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">102</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Does heat increase the probability of missing work for formal-sector workers? We address this question by analyzing nearly three years of daily data on 274 employees across 86 locations of a large welding firm in India. We find that a 1°C rise in daily mean temperature increases the probability of missing work for workers without workplace climate control by 3.4% of the mean rate of absence. The same temperature increase decreases the probability of missing work by 2.5% relative to mean absenteeism for workers with climate control.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>