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Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture
Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
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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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
Tekin, Erdal; Cesur, Resul; Ulker, Aydogan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Natural gas has emerged as an increasingly attractive source of energy since it is highly efficient, abundant, and cleaner than any other fossil fuel. In this paper, we examine the impact of widespread adoption of natural gas as a source of fuel on infant mortality in Turkey, using variation...
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The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation
Borenstein, Severin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Generating electricity from renewable sources is more expensive than conventional approaches, but reduces pollution externalities. Analyzing the tradeoff is much more challenging than often presumed, because the value of electricity is extremely dependent on the time and location at which it is...
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The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute
Anderson, Soren T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper estimates household preferences for ethanol as a gasoline substitute. I develop a theoretical model linking the shape of the ethanol demand curve to the distribution of price ratios at which individual households switch fuels. I estimate the model using data from many retail fueling...
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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
since 2002. Using pooled cross-sectional data of 486 registered CDM wind projects in China from 2002 to 2009, we examine the … manufacturers in China's wind power industry. …
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Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Tax expenditures are a major source of support for energy related activities in the federal budget exceeding direct budget support for energy by a factor of nearly six. Focusing on the policy goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum consumption, I find these tax expenditures...
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Environmental Macroeconomics: Environmental Policy, Business Cycles, and Directed Technical Change
Heutel, Garth; Fischer, Carolyn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Environmental economics has traditionally fallen in the domain of microeconomics, but recently approaches from macroeconomics have been applied to studying environmental policy. We focus on two macroeconomic tools and their application to environmental economics. First, real business cycle...
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Economics and Climate Change: Integrated Assessment in a Multi-Region World
Krusell, Per; Hassler, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper develops a model that integrates the climate and the global economy---an integrated assessment model---with which different policy scenarios can be analyzed and compared. The model is a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium setup with a continuum of regions. Thus, it is a full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421966
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Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth
Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water … availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more … accounting approach to investigate both the contribution played in the past by water availability in constraining China's growth …
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The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones
Hsiang, Solomon M.; Jina, Amir S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Does the environment have a causal effect on economic development? Using meteorological data, we reconstruct every country's exposure to the universe of tropical cyclones during 1950-2008. We exploit random within-country year-to-year variation in cyclone strikes to identify the causal effect of...
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