经济与社会研究院SEMINAR第35期

题目：The Impact of Temperature on Productivity: Evidence from Online Game Performance

报告人：范青亮

时间：2017年3月31日15:00-16:15

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106B会议室

主办方：暨南大学经济与社会研究院

主讲人简介：

范青亮，厦门大学王亚南经济研究院和经济学院统计系助理教授、博士生导师，2012年5月毕业于美国北卡罗来纳州立大学，获得经济学博士学位。主要致力于理论与实证计量经济学的研究，尤其是在大数据环境下的微观计量经济学，和大数据分析。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、青年项目等。主要成果发表在国际顶级期刊如Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics等。

Abstract:

This paper studies the short-run impacts of temperature on human performance in computer-mediated environment using a novel data set of online computer games. We adopt a new measurement of human performance using the number of missions accomplished by gamers in a popular online game in China. Taking advantage of the quasi-experiment of central winter heating policy in China, we distinguish the impacts of outdoor and indoor temperature and find that low temperatures below 5 degrees Celsius decrease game performance significantly. Casual gamers are affected more by cold than hardcore players. Access to central heating attenuates negative impacts of low outdoor temperatures on gamers' performance. High temperatures above 21 degrees Celsius also decrease gamers' performance. We conclude that expanding the current central heating zone will bring an increase in human performance by approximately 4% in Shanghai-surrounding provinces in the winter. Our results draw attention to potential damages of extreme temperature on human productivity in the modern computer-mediated working environment.