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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa

Cattaneo, Cristina - 2015

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....

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Understanding the linkages between climate change and inequality in the United States

Avtar, Ruchi; Blickle, Kristian; Chakrabarti, Rajashri; … - 2021

We conduct a review of the existing academic literature to outline possible links between climate change and inequality in the United States. First, researchers have shown that the impact of both physical and transition risks may be uneven across location, income, race, and age. This is driven...

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Shock-responsive social protection and climate shocks in Latin America and the Caribbean : lessons from COVID-19

Costella, Cecilia; Diez, Ana; Beazley, Rodolfo; … - 2023

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the regions most exposed and vulnerable to climate-related risks, with large shocks occurring regularly. Climate change is exacerbating the frequency and variability of climate related extremes and increasing slow onset events, threatening social...

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Heterogeneity in migration responses to climate shocks : evidence from Madagascar

Marchetta, Francesca; Sahn, David E.; Tiberti, Luca; … - 2021

find a strong negative impact of drought on the decision of youth to migrate in the year after the adverse weather shock … cushion the blow of the shock on the resources required to finance migration. We also find that households that report more …

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Do Natural Disasters Really Lead to Forced Migration? Evidence from Indonesia

Tse, Chun Wing - 2011

disaster occurrence in fact causes households to split more. Yet, the split-off households stay in the same village rather than …

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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks

Millner, Antony - 2013

Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to "fat-tailed" risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...

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Long-term growth effects of natural disasters : empirical evidence for droughts

Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2015

The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...

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Social inequalities in climate change-attributed impacts of hurricane harvey

Smiley, Kevin T.; Noy, Ilan; Wehner, Michael; Frame, Dave; … - 2021

Climate change is already increasing the severity of extreme weather events such as with rainfall during hurricanes. But no research to date investigates if, and to what extent, there are social inequalities in current climate change-attributed flood impacts. Here, we use climate change...

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Climate risk and beliefs in New York floodplains

Gibson, Matthew; Mullins, Jamie T. - 2020

Applying a difference-in-differences framework to a census of residential property transactions in New York City 2003-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which increased premiums; 2) Hurricane Sandy; and 3) new...

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Disaster insurance in developing Asia : an analysis of market-based schemes

Surminski, Swenja; Panda, Architesh; Lambert, Peter John - 2019

. This paper analyzes the status, types, and patterns of market-based disaster insurance schemes across emerging and … Institute on Climate Change and the Environment's Disaster Risk Transfer Scheme Database (2012-2018). Our analysis shows that … a wide variety of climate and disaster risks, without demand-side support, many markets are likely to collapse or, at …

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