A5069854816- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
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- Ukraine: War, Education, Health
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University of Oklahoma
2020-2024
The University of Texas at Austin
2022-2024
The Repugnant Conclusion is an implication of some approaches to population ethics. It states, in Derek Parfit's original formulation, For any possible at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality life, there must be much larger imaginable whose existence, if other things are equal, would better, even though its members have lives that barely worth living. (Parfit 1984: 388)
All leading long-term global population projections agree on continuing fertility decline, resulting in a rate of size growth that will continue to decline toward zero and would eventually turn negative. However, scholarly popular arguments have suggested because transmits intergenerationally (i.e., higher parents tend children) is heterogeneous within population, must be positive, as high-fertility groups come dominate the population. In this research note, we show intergenerational...
The climate economy literature has documented adverse effects of extreme temperatures on well-being through mechanisms such as mortality, productivity, and conflict. Impacts due simply to discomfort are less well understood. This paper investigates individuals' valuations weather using a revealed preference approach. We first quantify the decline in attendance at Major League Baseball games hot cold days. Leveraging this finding coupled with historically informed assumption horizontal supply...
Human activity generates carbon emissions. This fact has led many to conclude that declining fertility will improve humanity’s climate outlook. We show, using an integrated economy model compares alternative population paths, this relationship is in extremely weak on the time horizons matter for policy. Decarbonization urgent relative slow pace of even fastest plausible changes global size. In particular, momentum ensures immediate rates have only small impacts total size near-term, while...
Abstract Despite mounting evidence that reductions in agricultural emissions must be part of the global climate agenda, economic benefits such have not yet been quantified a manner appropriate for rigorous cost-benefit analyses. Here we couple and industrial economies leading macroeconomic-climate model to quantify costs animal-based foods along several dimensions. Under representative temperature targets, transition veganism alleviates necessary by 25 percent. business-as-usual pathway,...