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We investigate financial experts' beliefs about climate risk pricing and analyze how those beliefs influence stock …
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adaptation by directly providing public goods to manage disaster risks or by facilitating private agents' adaptation responses … suffer less and recover faster from climate extremes suggests adaptation, knowledge gaps remain, and little is known about … the efficiency of specific adaptation actions. I review various "no or low" regrets adaptation options which are …
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This paper identifies individual and regional risk factors for hospitalizations caused by heat within the German …
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adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on … mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health … and consumption related to high temperatures, a commonly-used proxy for measuring the consumption of adaptation services …
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Concerns about offspring's life quality are often cited as a motivation for caring about climate change. This paper investigates the hypothesized causal effect of grandparenthood on climate change worries, using panel data surveys among British families. Specifically, we study whether becoming a...
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-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …
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This paper argues that increases in perceived flood risk entail a negative and persistent shock to local economic … suffered damage, along with higher exit rates. The persistence of the effects is consistent with an upward revision of flood-risk … beliefs triggered by the hurricane. These findings suggest that businesses are adapting to the higher flood-risk environment …
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Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the methodological choices of these empirical studies in finding...
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on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts … the disaster. The response to hurricanes does not seem to be driven by logrolling behavior or lobbysts' pressure. The …
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Chad, which used to be the 11th-largest lake in the world. This African lake the size of El Salvador, Israel, or … shrinking, implying limited adaptation. Additionally, the negative water supply effects on fishing, farming, and herding … and estimate aggregate welfare losses taking into account adaptation shows overall losses of about 6%. The model also …
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