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or preferences for correlated coastal amenities. Observed residential sorting manifests among owners regardless of …
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Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global …
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Despite growing empirical evidence of the link between environmental policy and innovation, most economic models of environmental policy treat technology as exogenous. For long-term problems such as climate change, this omission can be significant. In this paper, I modify the DICE model of...
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Many areas of the natural and social sciences involve complex systems that link together multiple sectors. Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are approaches that integrate knowledge from two or more domains into a single framework, and these are particularly important for climate change. One of...
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We use plant-level data from the US Census of Manufacturers to study the short and long run effects of temperature on manufacturing activity. We document that temperature shocks significantly increase energy costs and lower the productivity of small manufacturing plants, while large plants are...
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will impact the economy, and these impacts could help explain broader observed relationships between temperature and … total economic output in wealthy nations, productivity is hard to measure and thus climate impacts hard to quantify. We …, and temperature impacts do not appear to offer profitable arbitrage opportunities …
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We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...
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climate impacts with specific emissions, including in recent international policy discussion of Loss and Damage (L&D). However …
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Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area burned in California can be accounted for by variation in...
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findings suggest that projected impacts of future warming on mortality, including benefits in many areas, might be a poor guide … for morbidity impacts …
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