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Dry Times in Africa: Rainfall and Africa's Growth Performance
Barrios, Salvador; Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
unexplored. In this paper we use a new cross-country panel climate data set in an economic growth framework to explore the issue …. Our results show that rainfall has been a significant determinants of poor economic growth for Africa but not for other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260338
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Annual Hard Frosts, Scale Effects and Economic Development: A Case not Closed
Funke, Michael; Zuo, Jessica - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2003
In an influential 2001, Journal of Economic Growth paper, Masters and McMillan find that one factor differentiating wealthy countries from poor includes annual winter frosts, which helps farmers to increase agricultural productivity and helps people to control disease, particularly malaria. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823521
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Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun
Bosetti, Valentina; Frankel, Jeffrey - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320996
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Sustainable cooperation in global climate policy: Specific formulas and emission targets to build on Copenhagen and Cancun
Bosetti, Valentina; Frankel, Jeffrey - 2011
We offer a framework to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across countries, one budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business as Usual (BAU) in the coming budget period, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279472
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060396
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Climate change and conflicts : the effects of temperature and precipitation variability
Kwiatkowski, Andrzej - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641650
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800629
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Heat, humidity, and infant mortality in the developing world
Geruso, Michael; Spears, Dean - 2018
geographic distribution of harms documented here have the potential to significantly alter assessments of optimal climate policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893618
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912825
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Feeling the heat : temperature, physiology & the wealth of nations
Heal, Geoffrey; Park, Jisung - 2014
social welfare has important implications for both the economics of climate change and comparative development. … physical and cognitive function? While many studies have explored the indirect links between climate and welfare (e … further evidence in support of a physiologically based causal mechanism. This more direct causal link between climate and …
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