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This study shows how soil aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African countries, we find that infants born in arid areas are...
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pose a challenge for developing countries as they prepare mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate health. The …
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mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from … how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce …
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Temporal evolution of extreme temperature effects on agriculture is important for understanding adaptation to climate …-1996 period is 40% to 50% less than that in the pre-1996 period. Second, estimation of marginal adaptation effects of … inputs points to irrigation as the central input for adaptation among the inputs that can be observed in our data. The …
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Global efforts towards mitigating climate change gain momentum; reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and aiming for zero emissions, or carbon neutrality, is the main goal. Economic factors are main determinants of CO2 emissions coming from production and energy consumption. This paper aims to...
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externalities associated with energy use-global warming, local air pollution, and various side effects (e.g., congestion) from motor … vehicles. Techniques for (roughly) estimating the magnitude of these externalities, and corrective energy taxes, on a country …
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