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Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts, with Applications to U.S. And African Agriculture
Burke, Marshall - 2014
A growing body of economics research projects the effects of global climate change on economic outcomes. Climate scientists often criticize these articles because nearly all ignore the well-established uncertainty in future temperature and rainfall changes, and therefore appear likely to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067961
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Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin; Nunn, Nathan - 2022
pastoralists – in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship with sedentary … events in Africa from 1989–2018. We show that droughts in the territory of transhumant pastoralists lead to conflict in … explains a sizable proportion of conflict events in Africa, particularly civil conflicts and religious-extremist attacks. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089908
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Out of Africa : Human Capital Consequences of in Utero Conditions
Lavy, Victor - 2016
dramatic differences in medical care technologies, prenatal conditions, and prenatal care at the move from Ethiopia to Israel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001198
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What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?
Parry, Ian W. H. - 2010
This paper develops an analytical model to quantify the costs and distributional effects of various fiscal options for allocating the (large) rents created under prospective cap-and-trade programs to reduce domestic, energy-related CO2 emissions. The trade-off between cost effectiveness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136741
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The Problem of the Commons : Still Unsettled after 100 Years
Stavins, Robert N. - 2010
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies have grown, the carrying-capacity of the planet -- in regard to natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137614
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Fat Tails, Thin Tails, and Climate Change Policy
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2010
Climate policy is complicated by the considerable compounded uncertainties over the costs and benefits of abatement. We don't even know the probability distributions for future temperatures and impacts, making cost-benefit analysis based on expected values challenging to say the least. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138396
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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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Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program
Fowlie, Meredith - 2010
U.S. adoption of a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases could place some domestic producers at a disadvantage relative to international competitors who do not face similar regulation. To address this issue, proposed federal climate change legislation includes a provision that would freely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138772
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Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
This essay revisits the question of instrument choice for the regulation of externalities in the context of climate change. The central point is that the Pigouvian prescription to equate marginal control costs with the expected marginal benefits of damage reduction should guide the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139280
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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Burgess, Robin - 2012
Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114012