| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13178 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13178 |
| Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US | |
| Olivier Deschênes; Michael Greenstone | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-06-22 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. Using the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and two state of the art climate models, the analysis suggests that under a "business as usual" scenario climate change will lead to an increase in the overall US annual mortality rate ranging from 0.5% to 1.7% by the end of the 21st century. These overall estimates are statistically indistinguishable from zero, although there is evidence of statistically significant increases in mortality rates for some subpopulations, particularly infants. As the canonical Becker-Grossman health production function model highlights, the full welfare impact will be reflected in health outcomes and increased consumption of goods that preserve individuals' health. Individuals' likely first compensatory response is increased use of air conditioning; the analysis indicates that climate change would increase US annual residential energy consumption by a statistically significant 15% to 30% ($15 to $35 billion in 2006 dollars) at the end of the century. It seems reasonable to assume that the mortality impacts would be larger without the increased energy consumption. Further, the estimated mortality and energy impacts likely overstate the long-run impacts on these outcomes, since individuals can engage in a wider set of adaptations in the longer run to mitigate costs. Overall, the analysis suggests that the health related welfare costs of higher temperatures due to climate change are likely to be quite modest in the US. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13178 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570857 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Olivier Deschênes,Michael Greenstone. Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US. 2007. |
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| w13178.pdf（528KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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