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Determinants of Heat Risk in an Aging Population: A Machine Learning Approach
Klauber, Hannah; Koch, Nicolas - 2023
population over 65 years of age. Using administrative insurance claims data and a machine-learning-based regression model, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296740
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Climate change, large risks, small risks, and the value per statistical life
Alberini, Anna; Ščasný, Milan - 2024
We conduct a contingent valuation survey in Spain and the UK to elicit information about the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for heat wave watch and response programs. We find that people are willing to pay for such programs, and that the WTP (€ 50 for each of 10 years; 2019 PPP euro) is virtually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577321
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for harvesting, and that the instantaneous heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328956
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution: Implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather andpollution conditions. We find strong evidence for harvesting, and that the instantaneous heat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352037
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Distributive outcomes matter: Measuring social preferences for climate policy
Svenningsen, Lea Skræp - 2017
This study examines whether people have distributional preferences for the impacts of climate policy when making donations towards such policies. In an online choice experiment, using a real donation mechanism, a representative sample of 95 members of the Danish public are provided 27€ and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101060
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Climate Change through the Lens of Macroeconomic Modeling
Fernández-Villaverde, Jésus; Gillingham, Kenneth T.; … - 2024
There is a rapidly advancing literature on the macroeconomics of climate change. This review focuses on developments in the construction and solution of structural integrated assessment models (IAMs), highlighting the marriage of state-of-the-art natural science with general equilibrium theory....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015097025
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The social cost of CO₂ from the PAGE09 model
Hope, Chris W. - 2011
A new version of the PAGE integrated assessment model, PAGE09, is introduced. The most important scientific, impact, emission and adaptation inputs in the latest default version of the model, PAGE09 v1.7 are described. The scientific and economic impact results are presented for a business as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306553
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On the Effects of Linking Voluntary Cap-and-Trade Systems for CO₂ Emissions
Weitzman, Martin L.; Holtsmark, Bjart J. - 2018
Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931975
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On the effects of linking voluntary cap-and-trade systems for CO₂ emissions
Weitzman, Martin L.; Holtsmark, Bjart - 2018
Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968653
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Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains
Gibson, Matthew; Mullins, Jamie - 2020
-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which … reduced-form estimates into the effects of insurance premium changes and belief updating. Results suggest the new maps induced … belief changes comparable to those from insurance reform. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270231