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Defensive investments and the demand for air quality : evidence from the NOx budget program and ozone reductions
Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2013
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade market, which dramatically reduced NOx emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788835
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The impact of climate change on mortality in the United States : benefits and costs of adaptation
Deschênes, Olivier - 2022
This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329615
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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452382
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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454010
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … wellbeing. An increase of 1% life expectancy is equivalent to more than 5% increase in yearly GDP. One year of internal conflict … costs the equivalent of a 50% drop in GDP per year in terms of subjective wellbeing. Public debt, on the other hand, has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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Home sweet home? : macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229293
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380028
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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604148
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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209780
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Nighttime light pollution and economic activities : a spatio-temporal model with common factors for US counties
Bresson, Georges; Etienne, Jean-Michel; Lacroix, Guy - 2023
Excessive nighttime light is known to have detrimental effects on health and on the environment (fauna and flora). The paper investigates the link between nighttime light pollution and economic growth, air pollution, and urban density. We propose a county model of consumption which accounts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319142