IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/ecolet/v265y2026ics0165176526001862.html

Humidity and work-related accidents

Author

Listed:
  • Barbieri, Nicolò
  • Santoni, Edoardo
  • Scarlato, Margherita

Abstract

Analyzing almost 2.3 million work-related injuries in Italy, we estimate that higher humidity levels significantly increase the number of workplace accidents. Using dew point temperature to capture the moisture content of the atmosphere, our results confirm that a 1 °C increase in the dew point temperature raises the number of accidents by 0.7%. Allowing for non-linear effects of humidity, we uncover a U-shaped relationship highlighting that both low and high humidity levels are associated with a higher number of accidents relative to intermediate conditions.

Suggested Citation

  • Barbieri, Nicolò & Santoni, Edoardo & Scarlato, Margherita, 2026. "Humidity and work-related accidents," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 265(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:265:y:2026:i:c:s0165176526001862
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2026.112992
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176526001862
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.econlet.2026.112992?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
    • J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
    • J80 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - General
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:265:y:2026:i:c:s0165176526001862. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecolet .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.