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There is limited public discourse and understanding about the history and science of weather and climate intervention … climate intervention with the aim of answering the question: Why aren’t more economists interested in evaluating weather and …, though scientists have researched, tested and implemented numerous methods of weather modification for six decades. Also …
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I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect …
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selves have different tastes for time alone, time with family, and time with friends. Weather conditions can change the … empirically by drawing on methods from the household economics literature. The test results support the hypothesis that weather …
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This paper studies the investment based growth rate effects of climate change. The analysis is based on the Integrated … drive economic growth. Due to a negative capital accumulation as well as savings effect on the knowledge stock, climate …
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The increase in sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the primary consequences of climate change and has the …
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We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...
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emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate …-based method for calculating the costs of climate change from extreme weather differs fundamentally from other approaches to … climate cost estimation. Those other approaches use macroeconomic modelling embedded within climate models in various types of …
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. Exploiting random variation in climate, we find that as economic conditions in Afghanistan worsen, people become more religiously …
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We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural …-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that while the effect of recent adverse weather shocks is on average modest, the …
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We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international …) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for … the specification of weather anomalies that maximizes the goodness of fit of our empirical model. We then use this best …
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