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Cities and the sea level
Lin, Yatang; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy - 2021
coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable rise in the share of coastal housing built on flood-prone land …
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Temperature and mental health : evidence from the spectrum of mental health outcomes
Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019
This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness, suicides, and self-reported days of poor mental health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110448
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Does access to health care mitigate environmental damages?
Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019
Differential access to health care is commonly cited as a source of heterogeneity in the health effects of environmental exposure, yet little causal evidence exists to support such claims. We test this hypothesis by utilizing exogenous variation in both access to health care and environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129825
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Climate risk and beliefs in New York floodplains
Gibson, Matthew; Mullins, Jamie T. - 2020
-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257846
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Differential exposure to climate change? : evidence from the 2021 floods in Germany
Odersky, Moritz; Löffler, Max - 2023
natural disasters intensified by anthropogenic climate change. To this end, we link official geo-coded satellite data on flood …-affected buildings to neighborhood-level information on socio-economic status. We then document the empirical relationship between flood … percent lower in flood-affected neighborhoods than in non-affected neighborhoods nearby. Our study is the first to document …
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Greenhouse gas mitigation and price-driven growth in a Solow-Swan economy with an environmental limit
Burda, Michael C.; Zessner-Spitzenberg, Leopold - 2024
The existence of an environmental limit in the Solow-Swan economy changes the nature of economic growth, but does not preclude it. When atmospheric greenhouse gases reach a predetermined absolute threshold, further growth requires a permanently expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. If...
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Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015
of a natural experiment created by the European Flood of August 2002. Using micro data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …
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Temperature, workplace safety, and labor market inequality
Park, Jisung; Pankratz, Nora; Behrer, A. Patrick - 2021
Using data covering the universe of injury claims from the nation's largest worker's compensation system (2001-2018), we explore the relationship between temperature and workplace safety and its implications for labor market inequality. Hotter temperature increases workplace injuries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589917
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Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children?
Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022
Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...
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