Estimating the Consequences of Climate Change from Variation in Weather

I thank seminar participants at the 2019 Spring Meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research Energy and Environment Program, the 2019 Bank of Canada Climate Change and Central Banking Workshop, the 2020 Berkeley Climate Economics Workshop, the 2019 Queen's Institute of Intergovernmental Relations State of the Federation Workshop, Arizona State University, Auburn University, University of Alabama, University of Arizona, University of California Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Massachusetts, University of Southern California, and University of Wisconsin for helpful comments. I thank Wolfram Schlenker for kindly providing data and Olivier Deschênes for helpful conversations. An early version circulated as “Sufficient Statistics for the Cost of Climate Change.” The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• September 5, 2018
• November 30, 2018
• December 3, 2019