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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
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The impact of extreme weather events on education
Groppo, Valeria; Kraehnert, Kati - 2015
This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our … comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … climate data as well as household-level livestock losses. Exposure to weather shocks during preschool age (as opposed to …
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Child labor, rainfall shocks, and financial inclusion : evidence from rural households
Bernal, Carolina; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2023
This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...
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Firm Adaptation to Climate Change
Grover, Arti; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We survey the microeconomics literature that studies how firms in the developing world are adapting to extreme weather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056174
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Climate Change in Developing Countries : Global Warming Effects, Transmission Channels and Adaptation Policies
de Bandt, Olivier; Jacolin, Luc; Thibault, Lemaire - 2021
Using panel data covering 126 low- and middle-income countries over 1960-2017, we find that sustained positive temperature deviations from their historical norms have a non-linear negative effect on economic growth and growth per capita. A sustained 1°C temperature increase lowers real GDP per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219423
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
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Global and regional impacts of the clean development mechanism
Wang, Shunli; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009
consequences of non-participation of the USA in the global coalition, and the associated distributional impacts world-wide. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378304
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Does hotter temperature increase poverty? : global evidence from subnational data analysis
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2022
Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
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Long-term low emissions development strategies : cross-country experience
Aguilar Jaber, Aimée; Anderson, Brilé; Nachtigall, Daniel - 2020
The Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS). This report compares the experience of three developed countries that have communicated LT-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations...
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Two decades of international climate negotiations : carbon budget allocation approach to re-shaping developing country strategies
Yedla, Sudhakar; Garg, Sandhya - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 18 (2014) 3, pp. 277-299
present budget estimates based on world per capita budget for the next forty years and proportional to the population of each …
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