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The Long-Lived Effects of Historic Climate on the Wealth of Nations
Bluedorn, John C.; Valentinyi, Akos; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2009
-country income distribution. Using a newly constructed dataset of climatic temperatures stretching over three centuries (18th, 19th … is introduced, the effect of 20th century climatic temperature on current income is either weakly positive or … insignificant. Our findings are robust to various sub-samples, additional geographic controls, and alternative income measures. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200862
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The impact of climate change on fertility
Casey, Gregory; Shayegh, Soheil; Moreno Cruz, Juan; … - 2019
This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974944
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The Transition to Agriculture : Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change
Dow, Gregory K.; Olewiler, Nancy; Reed, Clyde - 2005
some parts of the world began a transition to agriculture. Recent data strongly implicate climate change as the driving … productivity growth was combined with climate recovery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065875
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Temperature, productivity, and income rising temperatures due to climate change could dampen productivity growth for decades
Deschênes, Olivier - 2023
worker productivity and economic output. These effects are more pronounced in poorer countries and in climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289688
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Assessing Climate Change Impacts : Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Zhang, Jian - 2014
temperature increase in the relevant year and with a crop-growth model estimating climate change impact on cereal productivity …. The main results of the study point out on the one hand the limited influence of climate change on world food supply and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063286
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded - 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/10012910744
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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion
Galor, Oded - 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/10012920767
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Climate and Unified Growth Theory, the Role of Climate in Comparative Development
Sadik, Jacques - 2007
This paper develops a model of unified growth based on a positive feed back between growth and longevity. The model explains the historical development of industrialized countries as well as why tropical countries did not follow the same path. It also gives a mechanism for conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224970
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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production : accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries
Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik H. - 2014
significant impact of climate change on agricultural production in high income countries, but significant adverse effects in … middle and low income countries. These adverse effects include a moderate negative impact of increases in temperature on … agricultural output and for low income countries also negative effects of reductions in precipitation and of increases in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354719
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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production : accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries
Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik H. - 2014
significant impact of climate change on agricultural production in high income countries, but significant adverse effects in … middle and low income countries. These adverse effects include a moderate negative impact of increases in temperature on … agricultural output and for low income countries also negative effects of reductions in precipitation and of increases in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348298