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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...
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Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture
Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season ahead. We experimentally evaluate monsoon onset forecasts in India …
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Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments
Tian, Huifang - 2009
Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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Mughal Decline, Climate Change, and Britain's Industrial Ascent : An Integrated Perspective on India's 18th and 19th Century Deindustrialization
Clingingsmith, David - 2005
India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 …th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market. India underwent secular … deindustrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output in 1750, this figure had fallen to …
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Weathering the Storm : Supply Chains and Climate Risk
Castro-Vincenzi, Juanma; Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We characterize how firms structure supply chains under climate risk. Using new data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we show that firms diversify sourcing locations, and suppliers exposed to climate risk charge lower prices. Our event-study analysis finds that...
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On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes
Conte, Bruno; Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...
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GDP and Temperature : Evidence on Cross-Country Response Heterogeneity
Berg, Kimberly A.; Curtis, Chadwick C.; Mark, Nelson C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use local projections to estimate the cross-country distribution of real GDP per capita growth impulse responses to global and idiosyncratic temperature shocks. Negative growth responses to global temperature at longer horizons are found for all Group of Seven countries while positive...
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Breaking Boundaries : Lower Tail Dependence Can Triple the Economic Value of Index Insurance for Rural Households
Estefania-Salazar, Enrique; Carter, Michael R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite its promise to help low-wealth households manage climate risk, index insurance remains hampered by downside basis risk, meaning that an insured party suffers a loss, but receives no payment because the insurance index fails to register a loss. While efforts to reduce basis risk focus on...
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Are We Adapting to Climate Change?
Burke, Marshall; Zahid, Mustafa; Martins, Mariana C. M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study whether the sensitivity of economic, health, and livelihood outcomes to climate extremes has declined over the last half century, consistent with adaptation. Understanding whether such adaptation is already occurring is central to anticipating future climate damages, to calibrating the...
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