| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w27297
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 27297
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| The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change |
| Ishan B. Nath
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| 发表日期 | 2020-06-08
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper integrates local temperature treatment effects and a quantitative macroeconomic model to evaluate the impact of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of countries to estimate the effect of temperature on productivity in manufacturing and services. Estimates suggest that extreme heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to climate change by importing food and shifting labor toward manufacturing. Second, I embed my estimates in an open-economy model of structural transformation covering 158 countries to investigate this possibility. Simulations suggest that subsistence food requirements drive agricultural specialization more than comparative advantage, however, such that climate change perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in GDP. The productivity effects of climate change reduce welfare by 1.5-2.7% overall and 6-10% for the poorest quartile. Trade reduces the welfare costs of climate change by only 7.4% under existing policy, but by 31% overall and 68% for the global poor in a counterfactual scenario that assigns all countries the 90th percentile level of trade openness. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth
; Development
; Environmental and Resource Economics
; Agriculture
; Environment
; Regional and Urban Economics
; Regional Economics
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27297
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584969
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Ishan B. Nath. The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change. 2020.
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