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Rural households in a changing climate
Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardo; Kronick, Dorothy; … - 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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Determinants of Heat Risk in an Aging Population: A Machine Learning Approach
Klauber, Hannah; Koch, Nicolas - 2023
This paper identifies individual and regional risk factors for hospitalizations caused by heat within the German population over 65 years of age. Using administrative insurance claims data and a machine-learning-based regression model, we causally estimate heterogeneous heat effects and explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296740
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Climate Adaptation Policies and Infant Health: Evidence from a Water Policy in Brazil
Da Mata, Daniel; 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/10012597441
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328956
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Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains
Gibson, Matthew; Mullins, Jamie - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270231
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Do Europeans Care about Climate Change? An Illustration of the Importance of Data on Human Feelings
Nowakowski, Adam; Oswald, Andrew J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322459
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426411
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Time is of the Essence: Climate Adaptation Induced by Existing Institutions
Bento, Antonio M.; Miller, Noah; Mookerjee, Mehreen; … - 2021
established for reasons unrelated to climate change may induce climate adaptation. We examine the impact of temperature on ambient … ozone concentration in the United States from 1980-2013, and the role of institution-induced adaptation. Ozone is formed … under warm temperatures, and regulated by the Clean Air Act institution. Adaptation in counties out of attainment with air …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597501
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734415
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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
Deschenes, Olivier - 2022
adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on … and consumption related to high temperatures, a commonly-used proxy for measuring the consumption of adaptation services … magnitude larger than the private cost of adaptation associated with electricity consumption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351987