{"id":21877,"date":"2025-10-16T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/?page_id=21877"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:14:10","slug":"regional-briefs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/regional-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\tRegional Briefs\n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNUSEconDigest\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNUSEconDigest\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

How will Heat Affect Economic Activity in the Rich Urban Tropics?<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

May 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Heat affects billions of people worldwide. In a recent study, Fesselmeyer, Liu, Salvo, and Simorangkir (2024) analyze how ambient heat influences economic activity in Singapore, a prosperous tropical city-state, offering novel insights into both heat’s direct effects and the mechanisms of urban adaptation.<\/p>\n

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How Does Automation Affect Worker Productivity?<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Oct 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Automation continues to reshape the workforce, but how does it specifically impact productivity through specialization? In a field experiment conducted by Jie Gong and I.P.L. Png (2024), supermarket cashiers in Singapore were studied to understand the effects of automation on task specialization and productivity.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regional Briefs NUSEconDigest NUSEconDigest How will Heat Affect Economic Activity in the Rich Urban Tropics? May 2025 Heat affects billions of people worldwide. In a recent study, Fesselmeyer, Liu, Salvo, and Simorangkir (2024) analyze how ambient heat influences economic activity in Singapore, a prosperous tropical city-state, offering novel insights into both heat’s direct effects and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21880,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21877\/revisions\/21880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/ecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}