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Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Weather on U.S. Agricultural Productivity : Evidence and Projection
Wang, Sun Ling - 2017
.S. agricultural productivity using 1940-1970 historical weather data (mean and variation) as the norm. We have four major findings … a state's productivity. Third, the impacts of THI load shock and Oury index shock variables (deviations from historical … norm fluctuations) on productivity are more robust than the level of THI and Oury index variables across specifications …
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Geographic and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Benefits of Reducing Air Pollution in the United States
Deryugina, Tatyana - 2020
Policies aimed at reducing the harmful effects of air pollution exposure typically focus on areas with high levels of pollution. However, if a population's vulnerability to air pollution is imperfectly correlated with current pollution levels, then this approach to air quality regulation may not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831283
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - 2023
The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...
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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
Chatterji, Shurojit - 2010
We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150444
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The Social Cost of Carbon Revisited
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2016
An estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC) is key to climate policy. But how should we estimate the SCC? A common approach is to use an integrated assessment model (IAM) to simulate time paths for the atmospheric CO2 concentration, its impact on global mean temperature, and the resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979765
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The Distribution of Environmental Damages
Hsiang, Solomon - 2017
Most regulations designed to reduce environmental externalities impose costs on individuals and firms. An active body of research has explored how these costs are disproportionately born by different sectors of the economy and/or across different groups of individuals. However, much less is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946487
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Imperfect Regulatory Oversight : Theory and Evidence from Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures
de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne; Liu, Hua Fang; Robinson, … - 2022
This paper develops and tests a model in which 1) purpose-driven firms emerge as an optimal organizational form even for profit-maximizing entrepreneurs; and 2) CSR arises endogenously as a response to imperfect regulatory oversight. Purpose-driven organizations allow entrepreneurs to create...
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The Potential Global and Developing Country Impacts of Alternative Emission Cuts and Accompanying Mechanisms for the Post Copenhagen Process
Tian, Huifang - 2010
We report numerical simulation results using a multiyear global multi country modeling framework which we use to assess the impacts of alternative emissions cuts which will likely come under consideration for the process to follow the December 2009 UNFCCC negotiation in Copenhagen. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142090
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Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields
Roberts, Michael J. - 2010
Extreme heat is the single best predictor of corn and soybean yields in the United States. While average yields have risen continuously since World War II, we find no evidence that relative tolerance to extreme heat has improved between 1950 and 2005. Climate change forecasts project a sharp...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138707
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Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Internal Migration in the United States
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2013
We investigate the link between agricultural productivity and net migration in the United States using a county …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091863