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Does Extreme Temperature Exposure Take a Toll on Mental Health? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Chen, Yanran; Sun, Ruochen; Chen, Xi; Qin, Xuezheng - 2023

Long-term exposure to extreme temperatures could threaten individuals' mental health and psychological wellbeing. This study aims to investigate the long-term impact of cumulative exposure to extreme temperature. Differently from existing literature, we define extreme temperature exposure in...

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Climate change, temperature extremes, and conflict: Evidence from mainland Southeast Asia

Gasser, André Tashi; Lanz, Bruno - 2023

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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Climate change and divorce behavior : implication for family education

Huang, Ya-Hui; Ma, Yan - In: Innovation and green development 3 (2024) 1, pp. 1-8

Extant literature has shown that climate change will affect people's mood and mental health, while the influence of climate change on marriage status is not analyzed. We estimate the effects of different types of climate change on the divorce rate around the world. Our models suggest that the...

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Climate change, temperature extremes, and conflict : evidence from mainland Southeast Asia

Gasser, André Tashi; Lanz, Bruno - 2023

We exploit 0.5°×0.5° 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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Resource Depletion and Capital Accumulation under Catastrophic Risk: Policy Actions against Stochastic Thresholds and Stock Pollution

Nævdal, Eric; Vislie, Jon - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2013

likelihood for hitting a tipping point or threshold of unknown location, causing a random“disembodied technical regress”. We … consumption opportunities should the threshold be hit. The precautionary tax will internalize the expected welfare loss should a … threshold be hit, whereas the capital subsidy will internalize the expected post-catastrophic long-run return from current …

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Establishing the link between poverty and changes in climatic conditions in the Philippines

Arcenas, Agustin L. - 2018

This paper investigates whether changes in climatic conditions significantly contribute to incidence of poverty in the Philippines. Due to the lack of sufficient regional estimates of poverty, this study utilized food cpi data to proxy for poverty level. The relationship between poverty level...

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What social cost of carbon? : a mapping of the climate debate

Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste; Dumas, Patrice; Hourcade, … - 2012

Given disparate beliefs about economic growth, technical change and damage caused by climate change, this paper starts with the seeming impossibility of determining a unique time profile of the social costs of carbon as a benchmark for climate negotiations and for infrastructure decisions that...

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Closing wells : fossil exploration and abandonment in the energy transition

Van den Bijgaart, I. M.; Rodríguez Acosta, Mauricio Andrés - 2020

Despite ambitious climate goals and already substantial stocks of developed fossil energy reserves, development of new fossil energy reserves continues to be high. This raises concerns, as it reinforces the fossil industry’s opportunities and incentives to continue extraction, and may...

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Voluntary Carbon Markets

Nowak, Eric - 2022

Climate change is the biggest threat humankind is facing nowadays. More greenhouse gases (GHG) have been released into the atmosphere in the last 30 years than in the entire history of our planet, causing average temperatures to rise by about one degree Celsius thus far. If this continues, 50...

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The Transboundary Effects of Climate Change and Global Adaptation : the Case of the Euphrates-Tigris Water Basin in Turkey and Iraq

Giovanis, Eleftherios; Ozdamar, Oznur - 2023

Drought has erupted across the Middle-East, as a result of climate change and global warming, leading to a considerable reduction in rainfall and snowfall, as well as a substantial drop in water resources. Climate change is, without a doubt, one of Iraq’s most pressing issues, with...

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