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Soil aridification, precipitations, and infant health : evidence from Africa
Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2023 - This version: May 5, 2023
in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252151
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Aridification, agriculture, and infant health : evidence from soil potential evapotranspiration
Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2022
productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected … crop yields and child health imputed to precipitations alone. The findings are applied to model projections of future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822125
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Debating the little ice age
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014
This paper replies to commentaries by Sam White and by Ulf Büntgen and Lena Hellmann on our 'The Waning of the Little Ice Age: Climate Change in Early Modern Europe'. White and Büntgen/Hellmann seek to prove that Europe experienced the kind of sustained falls in temperature between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257725
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Desertification and agricultural productivity : evidence from 5,636 grids
Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2021
The economic effects of global warming have gained considerable attention in recent economic literature. However, the interaction between desertification and agricultural productivity has not received substantial consideration. In this paper, we explore the relationship between soil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697266
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Covid-19 and climate change : a tale of two global problems
Fuentes, Rolando; Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; … - 2020
In this paper, we examine the similarities and the differences between two global problems, the Coronavirus pandemic and climate change, and the extent to which the experience with the Covid19 pandemic can be of use for tackling climate change. We show that both problems share the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405778
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COVID-19 and EU climate targets: going further with less?
Meles, Tensay Hadush; Ryan, Lisa; Wheatley, Joe - 2020
The COVID-19 crisis comes at a complex moment for European climate policy as it pivots from a 40% 2030 emissions reduction target to a European Green Deal that is in better alignment with long-term Paris Agreement goals. Here, the implications of the dramatic fall in economic output associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221290
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Apocalypse now? : climate change and war in Africa
Weezel, Stijn van - 2018
There is a large empirical literature trying to quantify the potentially adverse affects of climate change on the risk of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to violence. A major shortcoming of this approach is that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897838
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Mosquitoes and potatoes: how global health crises impede development
Malpede, Maurizio; Falchetta, Giacomo; Shayegh, Soheil - 2021
evidence on how public health emergencies have negatively affected socioeconomic development pathways well beyond the crisis … duration. Here we examine the impact of malaria on the contribution of potato to the Old World's development during the 18th … and 19th centuries. We exploit local variations in land suitability for potato cultivation and malaria transmission to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542889
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Economics research and climate change : a Scopus-based bibliometric investigation
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Ghinoi, Stefano; Masotti, Matteo; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170696
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The waning of the little ice age
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2012
The ramifications of the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures straddling several centuries in northwestern Europe, reach far beyond meteorology into economic, political, and cultural history. The LIA has spawned a series of resonant images that range from frost fairs to contracting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733092