Our great Summer Study Abroad Program on Sustainable Development and Climate Change in Venice has started!
We have already met with climatologists at CMCC in Bologna, visited the MOSE project to protect Venice from the high waters, practice glass making skills in Murano with an exclusive visit to the Seguso glass factory, and explored Venice to understand why it had a great past and how it failed over the centuries.
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June 05, 2019
May 10, 2019
Does harmful climate increase or decrease migration? Evidence from Rural Households in Nigeria
Totally new draft and new title for paper on migration and climate in Nigeria.
Accepted for publication on the November 2019 Issue of Climate Change Economics (updated on June 6, 2019)
Accepted for publication on the November 2019 Issue of Climate Change Economics (updated on June 6, 2019)
Abstract: This paper analyses whether migration is an adaptation
strategy that households employ to cope with climate in Nigeria. We estimate
our model using cross-section variation in climate and long-term migration
decisions because we are interested in the average response to long-term
climatic conditions. For households that operate farms, we find that the
relationship between climate and migration is non-linear. In particular,
climates with closer to ideal farming conditions are associated with a higher
propensity to migrate, whereas in the least favorable climatic conditions, the
propensity to migrate declines. The marginal effect of rainfall and temperature
changes on migration varies by season. We estimate the impact of climate change
on the number of migrant households in 2031-2060 and 2071-2100, ceteris paribus. With current population
levels, climate change generates between 3.6 and 6.3 million additional
migrants, most of them internal. However, these estimates are not statistically
significant.
March 13, 2019
The Effect of Extreme Temperatures and Adaptation across Eastern American Farms
Massetti, E., and R. Mendelsohn. 2019. “The Effect of Extreme Temperatures and Adaptation across Eastern American Farms” Revise and Resubmit.
Abstract. Previous Ricardian models of climate change impacts on agriculture have been criticized because they rely on mean temperatures and do not explicitly include extreme temperatures. This paper compares results using the entire distribution of daily temperature versus just the mean seasonal or growing season temperature in a Ricardian model. Including all temperatures does not increase measured long run damage. The warmest and coldest temperatures cause only modest harm to farmland values suggesting farmers have adapted to these extremes. The paper shows a few examples of these adaptations by farmers.
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