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system (GIS) mapping, the paper presents evidence that production technology in the tropics has lagged behind temperate zone … technology in the two critical areas of agriculture and health, and this in turn opened a substantial income gap between climate … and weak agricultural technology in the tropics have combined to slow the demographic transition from high fertility and …
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into macroeconomic climate-economy models. This paper proposes a joint empirical-structural approach to bridge this gap for … a stochastic growth model for 40 vulnerable countries and project welfare effects of climate-driven cyclone risk changes …
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classification rule analysis, we confirm the dominant role of climate in accounting for cross-country differences in malaria … morbidity. The data, however, do not suggest that tropical location is destiny: controlling for climate, we find that access to …
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uncomfortable. These preferences vary by location due to sorting or adaptation. Changes in climate amenities under business …
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economic effects of future climate change …
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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 humans to...
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literature has implications for the consequence of climate change, and may also provide a partial explanation of why hot …
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our choice of historical time period and climate dataset. We demonstrate that Buhaug's proposed method of controlling for … climate data and to alternate codings of major war. Using Buhaug's preferred climate data under sound econometric assumptions …
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, we show that there is a parallel between a country's distance to the Equator and the economy's dependence on climate …
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Any economic analysis of climate change policy requires some model that describes the impact of warming on future GDP …
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