Climate Change, Population Growth, and Population Pressure

We are grateful to Lint Barrage, Greg Casey, Maureen Cropper, Eric Galbraith, and Zeina Hasna for helpful advice; to Lucy Li, Frankie Fan, William Yang, and Raymond Yeo for research assistance; to David Anthoff, Brian Prest, and Lisa Rennels for access to data and code; and to seminar audiences at the Bank of Italy, University of Bologna, Université Catholique de Louvain, University of Chicago, University of Chile, University of Connecticut, ETH Zurich, IIASA, the IMF, Korea University, Lahore School of Economics, University of Manchester, NBER Summer Institute, NYU Abu Dhabi, Osaka University, Oxford University, RIDGE forum on Sustainable Growth, Schumpeter Seminar (Humboldt University), Sungkyunkwan University, University of Tokyo, and the World Bank for useful feedback. Research was supported by the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University through the generosity of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2C HD041020 and T32 HD007338). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• February 14, 2024