A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
We develop a unifying approach to estimating climate impacts and adaptation, and apply it to study the impact of climate change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when responding to daily weather shocks, but may adjust to long-run climatic changes. By simultaneously exploiting variation in weather and climate, we identify both the short- and long-run impacts on economic outcomes, and measure adaptation directly as the difference between those responses. As a result, we identify adaptation without making extrapolations of weather responses over time or space, and overcome omitted variable bias concerns in prior approaches.
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Copy CitationAntonio Bento, Noah S. Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee, and Edson R. Severnini, "A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation," NBER Working Paper 27247 (2020), https://doi.org/10.3386/w27247.Download Citation
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Antonio M. Bento & Noah Miller & Mehreen Mookerjee & Edson Severnini, 2023. "A unifying approach to measuring climate change impacts and adaptation," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, .
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