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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States : Benefits and Costs of Adaptation

Deschênes, Olivier - 2022

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...

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Human Capital and Climate Change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...

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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality : Evidence from the Nox Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Deschênes, Olivier - 2014

Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade market, which dramatically reduced NOx emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich...

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Is Shale Development Drilling Holes in the Human Capital Pipeline?

Rickman, Dan S. - 2016

Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and a novel method for measuring changes in educational attainment we examine the link between educational attainment and shale oil and gas extraction for the states of Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia. The three states examined are...

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Quantifying the Externalities of Renewable Energy Plants Using Wellbeing Data : The Case of Biogas

Krekel, Christian; Rechlitz, Julia; Rode, Johannes; … - 2021

externalities of renewable energy plants using wellbeing data. We focus on the example of biogas, one of the most frequently … negative externalities: impacts are moderate in size and spatially confined to a radius of 2,000 metres around plants. We …

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Evaluating the Impacts of Minigrid Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan Christoph - 2022

A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....

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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality : Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure

Cesur, Resul - 2013

in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing … challenges faced by these countries without undermining their economies.In this paper, we examine the impact of air pollution on …

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Food for Fuel : The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...

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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

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On the Effects of Covid-19 Safer-at-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution

Brodeur, Abel - 2020

distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods … with rich cellular tracking and high frequency air pollution data.We find that state and U.S. county safer-at-home policies … range from $7 billion to $24 billion while the benefits from reduced pollution could range from $650 million to $13 …

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