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Climate, urbanization, and conflict : the effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder
Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019
In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in … large cities. Our findings have important implications for evaluating future climate change, as well as for policies … regarding adaptation to climate change and disaster resilience. …
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Crime, Weather, and Climate Change
Ranson, Matthew - 2012
This paper estimates the impact of climate change on the prevalence of criminal activity in the United States. The … analysis is based on a 50-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2,972 U.S. counties. I identify the effect of … weather on monthly crime by using a semi-parametric bin estimator and controlling for county-by-month and county-by-year fixed …
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Climate change and risk scenario in Bangladesh
Rahman, Mohammad Chhiddikur; Rahaman, Md Shajedur; … - In: Asia-Pacific journal of regional science 7 (2023) 2, pp. 381-404
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Natural disasters and political disorder : why urban flooding turns violent : applying a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
Plänitz, Erik - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 26 (2020) 2, pp. 1-18
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Estimating the consequences of climate change from variation in weather
Lemoine, Derek - 2018
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Grasping climate vulnerability in Western Mountainous Nepal : applying climate vulnerability index
Bista, Raghu Bir - In: Forum for social economics 50 (2021) 4, pp. 553-568
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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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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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Temperature, climate change, and human conception rates : evidence from Hungary
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2020
climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and … exposure, but a partial rebound is observed after that. Absent adaptation, climate change is projected to increase seasonal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212843
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Losses of Russian regions from mortality due to sharp climate fluctuation
Fokeev, Maxim; Ruzhanskaya, Liudmila; Kisljak, Nadežda - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 16 (2022) 2/3/4, pp. 236-256
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