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Do Europeans Care About Climate Change? An Illustration of the Importance of Data on Human Feelings
Nowakowski, Adam - 2020
Economists have proposed a variety of sophisticated climate-change interventions. But do our citizens care enough about climate change to enact such policies? This paper provides evidence that suggests they do not. Two kinds of findings are presented. Using data on 40,000 Europeans from the 2016...
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Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains
Gibson, Matthew - 2020
Applying a difference-in-differences framework to a census of residential property transactions in New York City 2003-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which increased premiums; 2) Hurricane Sandy; and 3) new...
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution : Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2014
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
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Climate Change Salience, Economic Insecurity, and Support for Mitigation Policies
Johnston, David W.; Knott, Rachel; Mendolia, Silvia - 2022
Many people remain opposed to climate change mitigation policies. This opposition is an obstacle to policy action and, therefore, important to understand. We explore how unusually high temperatures (heat waves), which observably increase the salience of climate change-related issues, affect...
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Climate Adaptation Policies and Infant Health : Evidence from a Water Policy in Brazil
Da Mata, Daniel; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor Azevedo; … - 2022
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall harvesting. Access to cisterns during early pregnancy...
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Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?
Garg, Teevrat - 2020
Why do damages from changes in environmental quality differ across and within countries? Causal investigation of this question has been challenging because differences may stem from heterogeneity in cumulative exposure or differences in socioeconomic factors such as income. We revisit the...
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Does Access to Health Care Mitigate Environmental Damages?
Mullins, Jamie - 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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Environmental Federalism : A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Millimet, Daniel L. - 2013
Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental … plays out in practice as well as different federations have 'resolved' the issue differently. With the United States alone … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration : An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries
Drabo, Alassane - 2013
The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by interesting in the migration rates and the education level in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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