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Using 20 years of data on Medicare beneficiaries, we predict the end-of-century mortality effects of climate change … less, of the burden. Incorporating adaptation yields mortality effects of climate change that are much lower than those … among the U.S. elderly, accounting at the ZIP code level for both adaptation and regional heterogeneity in the temperature-mortality …
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Do people move as a result of temperature shocks? Documenting weather as a push factor for migration is crucial for … informing policy related to climate change and adaptation. This paper studies the impacts of high-temperature days on out … climate change …
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influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and … credibly identify (i) the breadth of channels linking weather and the economy, (ii) heterogeneous treatment effects across … different types of locations, and (iii) non-linear effects of weather variables. This paper reviews the new literature with two …
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responses fundamentally shape the burden of future climate change: we predict that mortality in California will decrease by 0 …Increased temperature-related mortality is predicted to be one of the largest contributors to future economic damages … from climate change globally, with declines in cold-related deaths in some regions outweighed by increases in heat …
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This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and … mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health …
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mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from … how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce …
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that under a "business as usual" scenario climate change will lead to an increase in the overall US annual mortality rate …This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. Using … the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and two state of the art climate models, the analysis suggests …
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plays a role in mitigating the health impacts of weather shocks. We also find that the heat-induced deterioration in …
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We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the … geographic distribution of harms documented here have the potential to significantly alter assessments of optimal climate policy …
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Microdata Sample (PUMS) to value climate amenities using both methods. We compare estimates of marginal willingness to pay (MWTP …), first assuming homogeneous tastes for climate amenities and then allowing preferences for climate amenities to vary by …
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