TY - JOUR T1 - Heat, Climate Control, and Worker Absences JF - Land Economics SP - 223 LP - 235 DO - 10.3368/le.102.2.082724-0076R1 VL - 102 IS - 2 AU - Gupta, Ridhima AU - Somanathan, Eswaran Y1 - 2026/03/01 UR - http://le.uwpress.org/content/102/2/223.abstract N2 - 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. ER -