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Consider a situation in which countries anticipate an international environmental agreement (IEA) to be in effect sometime in the future. What is the impact of the future IEA on current emissions after its announcement? We show that the answer to this question is ambiguous. We examine four types...
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I investigate the interaction between a country that imports a commodity whose production contributes to a stock pollution, such as electricity, from a country that produces that commodity. If the transboundary externality is priced improperly, the application of a feed-in tariff or border tax...
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, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on … migration. On the one hand, countries with higher trust may exhibit higher adaptive capacity to temperature fluctuations and so … lower climate-induced migration. On the other hand, trust may also facilitate migration by increasing the likelihood that …
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This paper investigates the effects of international migration restrictions on communities' capacity to absorb income … migration as an adaptive strategy. Relying on a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages, we use a triple difference …
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This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural …, by the end of the century, reduces SSA real GDP per capita by 1.8 percent and displaces 4 million individuals. Migration …
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We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
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That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
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Economic theory predicts that adverse shocks during early childhood have detrimental short- and long-run consequences for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused...
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This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...
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We explore the impact of an EU-wide nuclear phase-out by 2030 provided the EU energy and climate policy for 2030 is implemented. Using a numerical simulation model of the European energy industry (LIBEMOD), we find that a complete nuclear phase-out in Europe by 2030 has a moderate impact on...
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