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Adapting to Flood Risk : Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities

Gandhi, Sahil; Kahn, Matthew E.; Kochhar, Rajat; Lall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Urban flooding poses danger to people and places. People can adapt to this risk by moving to safer areas or by … investing in private self-protection. Places can offset some of the risk through urban planning and infrastructure investment …. By constructing a global city data set that covers the years 2012 to 2018, we test several flood risk adaptation …

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Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change : A Cross-Country Analysis

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2019

world real GDP per capita by 7.22 percent by 2100. On the other hand, abiding by the Paris Agreement, thereby limiting the …

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Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

Kolko, Jed - 2009

We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...

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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics

Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Urban public transit agencies spend billions of dollars each year on workers, durable capital and energy to supply transportation services. During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data for the...

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Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2010

The geographical location of economic activity within the United States has important implications for carbon mitigation. If households clustered in California's cities rather than in more humid southern cities such as Memphis and Houston, then the average household carbon footprint would be...

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The Greenness of China : Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development

Zheng, Siqi - 2009

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank 74 major Chinese cities with respect to their household carbon footprint. We find that the "greenest" cities based on this criterion are Huaian and Suqian...

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Carbon Geography : The Political Economy of Congressional Support for Legislation Intended to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Production

Cragg, Michael I. - 2009

Stringent regulation for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions will impose different costs across geographical regions. Low-carbon, environmentalist states, such as California, would bear less of the incidence of such regulation than high-carbon Midwestern states. Such anticipated costs are likely...

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The Greenness of Cities : Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2008

Carbon dioxide emissions may create significant social harm because of global warming, yet American urban development tends to be in low density areas with very hot summers. In this paper, we attempt to quantify the carbon dioxide emissions associated with new construction in different locations...

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Household Demand for Low Carbon Public Policies : Evidence from California

Holian, Matthew J. - 2014

In recent years, Californians have voted on two key pieces of low carbon regulation. The resulting voting patterns provide an opportunity to examine the demand for carbon mitigation efforts. Household voting patterns are found to mirror the voting patterns by the U.S Congress on national carbon...

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Big-Box Retailers and Urban Carbon Emissions : The Case of Wal-Mart

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014

The commercial real estate sector is responsible for a large share of a city's overall carbon footprint. An ongoing trend in this sector has been the entry of big-box stores such as Wal-Mart. Using a unique monthly panel data set for every Wal-Mart store in California from 2006 through 2011, we...

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