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Many consumers care about climate change and other externalities associated with their purchases. We analyze the behavior and market effects of such "socially responsible consumers" in three parts. First, we develop a flexible theoretical framework to study competitive equilibria with rational...
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African countries, but modest gains for Northern Europe. -- Climate ; climate change ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; survey …
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Accounting for socioeconomic and demographic variables as well as country specific effects, households’ willingness to pay for changes in climate is revealed using European data on reported life satisfaction. Individuals located in areas with lower average levels of sunshine and higher average...
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change policies and consumption. We identify a number of ways in which accounting for the implications of the new happiness … gas emissions in developed and developing countries. We do not examine every nuance of the growing happiness literature …
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The ongoing process of climate change goes along with an increase in the frequency and severity of various sorts of natural disasters. While the existing literature has almost exclusively focused on studying the direct effects resulting from different types of disasters, the effect of changing...
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We evaluate the impact of climate shocks on household subjective wellbeing on a sample of farmers in a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) of the Pacific (the Solomon Islands). We find that both subjective (self-assessed exposure to climate shocks) and objective (past cumulative extended dry...
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uncomfortable. These preferences vary by location due to sorting or adaptation. Changes in climate amenities under business …
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uncomfortable. These preferences vary by location due to sorting or adaptation. Changes in climate amenities under business …
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. However, for the sake of effective and efficient adaptation in various world regions answers to the following questions are … mitigation and adaptation actions taken by the governments, are they willing to participate to contribute to these actions. The … towards climate change as well as related mitigation and adaptation policies in Poland and in Turkey. These two countries were …
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