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into macroeconomic climate-economy models. This paper proposes a joint empirical-structural approach to bridge this gap for … a stochastic growth model for 40 vulnerable countries and project welfare effects of climate-driven cyclone risk changes …
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This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a foraging society s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances...
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shocks have persistent effects on land values and productivity up to two years following the shock. Propagation and … weather shock …
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This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of humans to...
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We build a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system … including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in most IAMs. These elements are spatial heat … cooperation and various degrees of competition between regions. Our results suggest that when the elements of climate science …
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Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an … intersection. In this review, we survey this literature on the interlinkages between climate and conflict, by necessity drawing … relationships in this area, and largely focus on "natural experiments" that exploit variation in climate variables over time …
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physical and cognitive function? While many economic studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e … physiological explanation. This more direct causal link between climate and social welfare has important implications for both the … economics of climate change and comparative development …
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, we show that there is a parallel between a country's distance to the Equator and the economy's dependence on climate …
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experience in the Old World, the New World last century and a half …
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