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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...

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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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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution : Implications of Climate Change

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2014

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, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions : New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries

Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Bélaïd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies

Garg, Teevrat - 2020

Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...

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Life Expectancy and the Environment

Mariani, Fabio - 2009

We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...

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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E. - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...

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Environmental Disasters and Migration

Mbaye, Linguère - 2015

This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...

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The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh

Hanifi, Syed Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; Quisumbing, … - 2022

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the...

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The Slow Demographic Transition in Regions Vulnerable to Climate Change

Dao, Thang; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2022

We consider how the demographic transition has been shaped in regions that are the least developed and the most vulnerable to climate change. Environmental conditions affect intra-household labor allocation because of the impacts on local resources under the poor infrastructural system. Climate...

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