Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,827
Cover Image
A National Estimate of Irrigation Canal Lining and Piping Water Conservation
Hrozencik, R. Aaron; Potter, Nicholas A.; Wallander, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Global climate change is already impacting water resources and, in many areas, reducing the amount of water available … for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … with water scarcity, including scarcity arising from climate change. In the agricultural sector, most water conservation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334342
Cover Image
Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes
Barwick, Panle Jia; Donaldson, Dave; Li, Shanjun; Lin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388818
Cover Image
Forest Fires : Why The Large Year-to-Year Variation in Forests Burned?
Apt, Jerome; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372495
Cover Image
Mortality Burden From Wildfire Smoke Under Climate Change
Qiu, Minghao; Li, Jessica; Gould, Carlos F.; Jing, Renzhi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Wildfire activity has increased in the US and is projected to accelerate under future climate change. However, our understanding of the impacts of climate change on wildfire smoke and health remains highly uncertain. We quantify the past and future mortality burden in the US due to wildfire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528347
Cover Image
Producer Beliefs and Conservation : The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption
Blumberg, Joey; Goemans, Chris; Manning, Dale - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … use publicly available data on water rights and irrigated cropland to empirically identify the impact of changing beliefs … about water availability on conservation decisions. We leverage a natural experiment in Colorado in which a period of severe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210108
Cover Image
Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462742
Cover Image
Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322808
Cover Image
Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture
Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are unable to tailor their planting decisions to the coming season, and underinvest in profitable inputs. Accurate, long-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486264
Cover Image
GDP and Temperature : Evidence on Cross-Country Response Heterogeneity
Berg, Kimberly A.; Curtis, Chadwick C.; Mark, Nelson C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use local projections to estimate the cross-country distribution of real GDP per capita growth impulse responses to global and idiosyncratic temperature shocks. Negative growth responses to global temperature at longer horizons are found for all Group of Seven countries while positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322715
Cover Image
The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change : Global vs. Local Temperature
Bilal, Adrien; Känzig, Diego R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
temperature leads to a 12% decline in world GDP. Global temperature shocks correlate much more strongly with extreme climatic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544728