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Willingness to pay for carbon mitigation : field evidence from the market for carbon offsets
Rodemeier, Matthias - 2023
What do markets for voluntary climate protection imply about people's valuations of en- vironmental protection? I study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545793
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464116
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Climate adaptation policies and infant health: evidence from a water policy in Brazil
Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor; … - 2021
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The …, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517152
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Payment for ecosystem services from forests
Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the presence of vegetation key to maintaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356967
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How do households discount over centuries? : evidence from Singapore's private housing market
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2016
to evaluating climate-change investments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455856
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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 … climate change. Drawing on the structural transformation literature, we develop a framework that incorporates heterogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802404
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Why do relatively few economists work on climate change? : a survey
Pestel, Nico; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic … climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of interest from economists? Here we report the results of a survey to try … to understand economists' views and actions. More than 90% of respondents state that they are concerned about climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705415
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Fighting climate change: the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand Chopra, Felix; … - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative … sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change - as measured through an incentivized donation decision - is highly … well as universal moral values positively predict climate preferences. Moreover, we document systematic misperceptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583671
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Something from nothing : estimating consumption rates using propensity scores, with application to emissions reduction policies
Bardsley, Nicholas; Büchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2016
Consumption surveys often record zero purchases of a good because of a short observation window. Only mean consumption rates can then be inferred. We show that propensity scores can be used to estimate each unit's consumption rate, revealing the distribution. We demonstrate the method using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452103
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Distributional effects of emission pricing in a carbon-intensive economy: the case of Poland
Antosiewicz, Marek; Fuentes S. M., J. Rodrigo; … - 2020
In this paper, we assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in Poland. We apply a two-step simulation procedure. First, we evaluate the economy-wide effects with a dynamic general equilibrium model. Second, we use a microsimulation model based on household budget survey data...
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