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Cities and the sea level
Lin, Yatang; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy - 2021
Construction on low elevation coastal zones is risky for both residents and taxpayers who bail them out, especially … coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable rise in the share of coastal housing built on flood-prone land … a monocentric coastal city, which we then use to explore the consequences of sea level rise and government policies. …
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How do households discount over centuries? : evidence from Singapore's private housing market
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2016
We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...
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Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses
Indaco, Agustín; Ortega, Francesc; Taṣpınar, Süleyman - 2019
This paper argues that increases in perceived flood risk entail a negative and persistent shock to local economic activity. Our analysis is based on a rich administrative dataset that contains all business establishments in New York City around the time of hurricane Sandy. Our data also...
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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...
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Tropical storms and mortality under climate change
Pugatch, Todd - 2019
Extreme weather induced by climate change can have major consequences for human health. In this study, I quantify the effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital statistics records from a large developing country,...
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Extreme temperatures and time-use in China
Garg, Teevrat; Gibson, Matthew; Sun, Fanglin - 2019
How do people in developing countries respond to extreme temperatures? Using individual-level panel data over two decades and relying on plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we estimate how extreme temperatures affect time use in China. Extreme temperatures reduce time spent working, and...
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
This paper uses state-level data on migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden). While lower than average...
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A meta-analysis of the literature on climate change and migration
Beine, Michel; Jeusette, Lionel - 2019
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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Climate change, migration and voice : an explanation for the immobility paradox
Beine, Michel; Noy, Ilan; Parsons, Christopher R. - 2019
This paper sheds light on the apparent paradox, wherein populations adversely affected by climatic conditions fail to migrate as much as would otherwise be expected. Drawing on Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice and Loyalty, we develop a simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119221
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Temperature and mental health : evidence from the spectrum of mental health outcomes
Mullins, Jamie T.; White, Corey D. - 2019
the implications of our findings for the allocation of mental health services and in light of climate change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110448