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Valuing Excess Deaths Caused by Climate Change
Bressler, R. Daniel; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Valuing deaths caused by climate change in Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) is complex and controversial, having caused disagreement and acrimony in past high-profile settings. Furthermore, it is of first order consequence to the value of the social cost of carbon (SCC). Despite this, the underlying...
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The Economics of Carbon Accounting and Carbon Offsets
Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I provide a rigorous framework for accounting for corporate greenhouse gas emissions, based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. I show that only Scope 1 emissions are of interest from a national policy perspective: that emissions in Scopes 2 and 3 are duplicative, and that downstream Scope 3...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Interconnection Queue
Johnston, Sarah; Liu, Yifei; Yang, Chenyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Generators applying to connect to the U.S. power grid go through an interconnection queue. Most wind and solar generators that begin the process do not complete it. Using new data, we find that a long queue increases the average waiting time, and high interconnection costs are a key factor in a...
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The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin - 2017
We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...
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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-mercury and Child Cognitive Development
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2020
We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using administrative and census … the causal effects of early-life consumption of methylmercury (MeHg) and DHA, elements contained in fish, on cognitive … development. Using an IV strategy based on an equilibrium model of fish supply that exploits time-series variation in oceanic SST …
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A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market
Graddy, Kathryn - 2009
We estimate a dynamic profit-maximization model of a fish wholesaler who can observe consumer characteristics, set … the key features observed in a set of high quality transaction-level data on fish sales collected at the Fulton fish …
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On the Economics of Extinction and Mass Extinctions
Taylor, Michael Scott; Weder, Rolf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Human beings' domination of the planet has not been kind to many species worldwide. This is to be expected. Humans have radically altered natural landscapes, harvested heavily from the ocean, and altered the climate in an unprecedented way. Recent concerns over the extent and rate of...
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The Effect of Free School Meals on Household Food Purchases : Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision
Marcus, Michelle M.; Yewell, Katherine G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We find evidence that exposure to universal free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) had a meaningful impact on grocery spending for households with children, with monthly food purchases declining by about $11, or 5 percent. For households in zip codes with higher...
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Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply
Gray, Colin; Leive, Adam; Prager, Elena; Pukelis, Kelsey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Work requirements are common in U.S. safety net programs. Evidence remains limited, however, on the extent to which work requirements increase economic self-sufficiency or screen out vulnerable individuals. Using linked administrative data on food stamps (SNAP) and earnings with a regression...
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Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women, who are likely to be especially vulnerable, in lower-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and...
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