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Nature Loss and Climate Change : The Twin-Crises Multiplier

Giglio, Stefano; Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We study the economic effects of the interaction of nature loss and climate change in a model that incorporates important aspects of both processes. We capture the distinct ways in which they affect economic activity--with nature constituting a key factor of production and climate change...

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States : Benefits and Costs of Adaptation

Deschênes, Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...

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To Starve or to Stoke? : Understanding Whether Divestment vs. Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation

Pless, Jacquelyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

16 pollution-intensive sectors are on track for meeting the Paris Agreement emissions targets ("carbon performance"). I …

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The Local Economic and Welfare Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing

Bartik, Alexander W. - 2017

Exploiting geological variation within shale deposits and timing in the initiation of hydraulic fracturing, this paper finds that allowing fracing leads to sharp increases in oil and gas recovery and improvements in a wide set of economic indicators. At the same time, estimated...

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Misperceptions About Air Pollution : Implications for Willingness to Pay and Environmental Inequality

Tarduno, Matthew A.; Walker, W. Reed - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper explores whether misperceptions about air pollution contribute to environmental inequality in the United … States. We use a two-part survey experiment to elicit respondents' beliefs about local air quality and pollution's effects on … WTP, we randomly show selected participants customized information about their actual air pollution. This allows us to …

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Climate Change through the Lens of Macroeconomic Modeling

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Gillingham, Kenneth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

There is a rapidly advancing literature on the macroeconomics of climate change. This review focuses on developments in the construction and solution of structural integrated assessment models (IAMs), highlighting the marriage of state-of-the-art natural science with general equilibrium theory....

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Human Capital and Climate Change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...

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Coasean Bargaining to Address Environmental Externalities

Libecap, Gary D. - 2016

I examine Ronald Coase's criticism of standard regulatory and tax policies to address environmental externalities. I …

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The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Hahn, Robert W. - 2010

can establish the overall pollution-reduction goal for a cap-and-trade system by setting the cap, and leave it up to the …

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The Impact of Oil and Gas Extraction on Infant Health

Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The benefits and costs of resource extraction are currently being hotly debated in the case of unconventional natural gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health impacts of conventional and unconventional forms of oil and...

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