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pay for changes in climate is revealed using European data on reported life satisfaction. Individuals located in areas … according to the preferred climates households appear strongly to favour the Mediterranean climate over the climate of Northern …
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We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values … Survey. Climate is described in terms of ‘degree-months’ calculated using an optimally-selected base temperature of 65°F (18 … to analyse a particular climate change scenario associated with the IPCC A2 emissions scenario points to major losses for …
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activities, households might have preferences over the climate. Using techniques more frequently employed to account for … differences in the demographic composition of households we use household production function theory to estimate climate … these estimates with climate change scenarios associated with the IPCC A2, A1B, and B1 emissions scenarios other things …
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impacts. Values consistently incorporate health and agricultural impacts of air quality along with climate damages. The latter … include damages associated with aerosol-induced hydrologic cycle changes that lead to net climate benefits when reducing …
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Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most other marine organisms, mollusks, which have significant commercial value worldwide, have relatively solid scientific evidence of biological...
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input into cost-benefit analysis of climate policy and regulation. We provide a set of new estimates of the social cost of … scenarios and values for the climate sensitivity parameter. …
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions not only lowers expected damages from climate change but also reduces the risk of …
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Drawing upon climate change damage functions previously proposed in the literature that we have calibrated to a common … approximate the range of uncertainty in climate change damages. In the absence of risk aversion, SCC values calculated with this …
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This paper provides a technical description of the Dynamic Applied Regional Trade (DART) General Equilibrium Model. The DART model is a recursive dynamic, multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model. All regions are fully specified and linked by bilateral trade flows. The...
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This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing … on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through … rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest that climate change induced price increases for food will raise …
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