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Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an … intersection. In this review, we survey this literature on the interlinkages between climate and conflict, by necessity drawing … relationships in this area, and largely focus on "natural experiments" that exploit variation in climate variables over time …
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This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. When the police protect some neighborhoods (concentrated protection), the city becomes segregated. When the police are evenly deployed across the city (dispersed protection), an integrated city emerges. Unequal...
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We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
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2000 Census data. We find that Americans favor an average daily temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit, will pay more on the … uncomfortable. These preferences vary by location due to sorting or adaptation. Changes in climate amenities under business …
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We value climate amenities by estimating a discrete location choice model for US households. The utility of each … climate amenities to value changes in mean winter and summer temperatures. We find that households sort among MSAs as a result … to value changes in winter and summer temperatures for the period 2020 to 2050 under the B1 (climate-friendly) and A2 …
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. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate the effect of daily temperature on annual income in United States … temperature above 15°C (59°F). A weekday above 30°C (86°F) costs an average county $20 per person. Hot weekends have little effect … price changes. Because the effect of temperature has not changed since 1969, we infer that recent uptake or innovation in …
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Spatial connectivity of renewable resources induces a spatial externality in extraction. We explore the consequences of decentralized spatial property rights in the presence of spatial externalities. We generalize the notion of unitization - developed to enhance cooperative extraction of oil and...
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We exploit a series of discontinuities, at several population thresholds, in the allocation mechanism of federal transfers to municipal governments in Brazil to identify the causal effect of municipal spending on local labor markets, using a ‘fuzzy' regression discontinuity design. Our...
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The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between agents in goods and factor markets. Until recently, the theoretical literature on economic geography had focused on stylized...
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