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The economic impact of weather and climate
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486667
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Climatic factors as determinants of international migration
Beine, Michel; Parsons, Christopher A. - 2012 - This version: February 2012
unexpected short-run factors, captured by natural disasters, as well as long-run climate change and climate variability. Building … disasters beget greater flows of migrants to urban environs. -- international migration ; climate change ; natural disasters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503816
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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis
Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
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 Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157241
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800629
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Feeling the heat : temperature, physiology & the wealth of nations
Heal, Geoffrey; Park, Jisung - 2014
physical and cognitive function? While many studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e … further evidence in support of a physiologically based causal mechanism. This more direct causal link between climate and … social welfare has important implications for both the economics of climate change and comparative development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250034
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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818504
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Do natural hazards cause international migration?
Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016
with the World Bank’s Global Bilateral Migration Database. Overall, our results suggest little evidence that natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551039
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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374
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Brexit and foreign students in gravity
Davies, Ronald B.; Specht, Lena S. - 2024
This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one year before the referendum. This exercise reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470430
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Under attack : terrorism and international trade in France, 2014-16
Nitsch, Volker; Rabaud, Isabelle - 2021
Terrorist events typically vary along many dimensions, making it difficult to identify their economic effects. This paper analyzes the impact of terrorism on international trade by examining a series of three large-scale terrorist incidents in France over the period from January 2015 to July...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533940