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I study the implications of climate change and adaptation on housing and income, and wealth. I embed climate change in …
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shrinking, implying limited adaptation. Additionally, the negative water supply effects on fishing, farming, and herding … and estimate aggregate welfare losses taking into account adaptation shows overall losses of about 6%. The model also …
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Although at least 400 million people suffer from seasonal allergies worldwide, the adverse effects of pollen on "non-health" outcomes, such as cognition and productivity, are relatively understudied. Using ambulance archives from Japan, we demonstrate that high pollen days are associated with...
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The high and increasing cost of natural disasters around the world motivates a growing body of literature on the role of natural disaster insurance in adapting to climate change. This chapter reviews current challenges in both public and private natural disaster insurance markets in the United...
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We study the effects of in utero exposure to climate change induced high ocean salinity levels on children's anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on ocean salinity, ocean chemistry and weather...
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We exploit 0.5ê×0.5ê raster data for mainland Southeast Asia from 2010 to 2020 to document a non-linear relationship between extreme temperature days and conflict. We show that the occurrence of conflict events increases with extreme maximum temperature days, whereas days with extreme minimum...
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This paper provides the first empirical estimates of the relationship between temperatures and household electricity consumption in Colombia, using electricity billing and weather data from 2010 to 2019. I find that higher temperatures (or higher values of the heat index) increase electricity...
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The economic implications of adaptation to climate change are crucial for the design of a distinctive adaptation policy … climate adaptation policy. First, the justified interventions of the public authorities are identified from the economic … theory point of view. These public interventions include actions aimed at the elimination of private and public adaptation …
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This paper hypothesizes that adaptation to climate change is influenced by the gender of the decision maker of the … household. Using a two-wave household panel survey dataset, choice of adaptation strategies employed by female- and male …-headed households are examined. A multinomial logit model is used to examine factors determining adaptation choices by gender. Findings …
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Maroc Vert, helps in agricultural adaptation to climate change and uncertainty. We develop a regionalized Morocco Computable … 2050, and introduced with respect to a 2003 baseline. With no adaptation, GDP impacts range from -3.1 per cent (worst … contraction in economic aggregates. Accounting for the adaptation measures in the Plan Maroc Vert, the GDP impacts from climate …
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