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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions
Casey, Gregory P. - 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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Temperature and Joint Time Use
Cosaert, Sam; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023
We combine exogenous variation in temperature at the county-day level in the U.S. with daily time use data to examine the effect of temperature on joint time use. We show that low temperatures reduce time spent with friends but increase time spent with family. Conversely, high temperatures...
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Climate Change, Migration and Voice : An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox
Beine, Michel A. 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/10012861312
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Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
Burzyński, Michał - 2019
migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862463
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Climate Change and Diet
Bose, Neha - 2020
Though many in the general public are concerned about climate change, most are unaware that agriculture and food production accounts for about one quarter of aggregate green house emissions and therefore, diet change is one of the most effective ways that individuals can reduce their climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829226
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910744
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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965017
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Reciprocal Climate Negotiators
Nyborg, Karine - 2015
International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026868
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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease : An Economic Approach
Gollin, Douglas - 2014
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069637
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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009
. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …
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