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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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An empirical study of the relationships between CO2 emissions, economic growth and openness
Choi, Eunho; Heshmati, Almes; Cho, Yongsung - 2010
This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and...
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Understanding climate damages: consumption versus investment
Casey, Gregory; Fried, Stephie; Gibson, Matthew - 2021
Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...
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Health shocks under hospital capacity constraint : evidence from air pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Guidetti, Bruna Morais; Pereda, Paula Carvalho; … - 2020
consequences of health shocks induced by air pollution in a megacity in the developing world: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Using daily data … practice of using health outcomes unrelated to pollution as "placebo tests" in studies on the effects of air pollution might be … pollution is also ubiquitous, but also happens in deprived areas in the developed world. …
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Ecosystems and human health : the local benefits of forest cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
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Temperature, labor reallocation, and industrial production: evidence from India
Colmer, Jonathan - 2021
To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity shocks? I estimate that temperature-driven reductions in the demand for agricultural labor in India are associated with increases in non-agricultural employment. This suggests...
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"Placebo tests" for the impacts of air pollution on health: the challenge of limited healthcare infrastructure
Guidetti, Bruna Morais; Pereda, Paula Carvalho; … - 2021
When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo … conditions seemingly unrelated to air pollution. In this study, we argue that one should proceed with caution when running such … falsification tests. If healthcare infrastructure is limited, when we observe health shocks such as those driven by air pollution …
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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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Ocean salinity, early-life health, and adaptation
Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, James; Long, Zi; Menon, Nidhiya - 2023
We study the effects of in utero exposure to climate change induced high ocean salinity levels on children's anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on ocean salinity, ocean chemistry and weather...
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Extreme weather events and climate change : economic impacts and adaptation policies
Ferreira, Susana - 2024
This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events to draw lessons on how societies can better manage these risks. While evidence that richer, better governed societies suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes...
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