Human Capital Costs of Climate Change: Evidence from Test Scores in India

Garg, Teevrat; Jagnani, Maulik; Taraz, Vis

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2941049

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“…consequential (Park, 2017;Graff Zivin et al, 2018). 4 It also complements recent work by Garg et al (2016), which finds that increases in annual temperature exposure in India can impair test performance largely through impacts on agricultural yields and nutrition. Our study also has implications for the study of standardized test performance more generally.…”

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Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China

Zivin¹,

Song²,

Qu³

et al. 2018

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Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China

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Song²,

Qu³

et al. 2018

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“…However, Hsiang, Burke, and Miguel (2013) point out that in some contexts a potential cause of vulnerability could be credibly identified (or ruled out) if some exogenous change causes a key channel to appear for the first time or to be abruptly obstructed if it was already present, and a corresponding sharp change (or absence of change) in marginal losses is observed at that moment. Some recent examples of this approach include the demonstration that work-for-pay programs in India reduce the sensitivity of local violence to rainfall (Fetzer, 2014) and the sensitivity of child test scores to temperature (Garg, Jagani, and Taraz, 2017). Also, Sarsons (2015) shows that access to dams does not alter the rainfall-violence link in India.…”

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The Distribution of Environmental Damages

Hsiang¹,

Oliva²,

Walker³

2019

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

144

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Most regulations designed to reduce environmental externalities impose costs on individuals and firms. An active body of research has explored how these costs are disproportionately born by different sectors of the economy and/or across different groups of individuals. However, much less is known about the distributional characteristics of the environmental benefits created by these policies, or conversely, the differences in environmental damages associated with existing environmental externalities. We review this burgeoning literature and develop a simple and general framework for focusing future empirical investigations. We apply our framework to findings related to the economic impact of air pollution, deforestation, and climate, highlighting important areas for future research. A recurring challenge to understanding the distributional effects of environmental damages is distinguishing between cases where (i) populations are exposed to different levels or changes in an environmental good, and (ii) where an incremental change in the environment may have very different implications for some populations. In the latter case, it is often difficult to empirically identify the underlying sources of heterogeneity in marginal damages, as damages may stem from either non-linear and/or heterogeneous damage functions. Nonetheless, understanding the determinants of heterogeneity in environmental benefits and damages is crucial for welfare analysis and policy design.

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“…A burgeoning literature has identified adverse short-term impacts of extreme temperatures on several population outcomes, including elderly mortality (Deschênes and Moretti, 2009;Deschênes and Greenstone, 2011), emergency department visits and hospitalizations (Green et al, 2010;White, 2017), and cognitive performance (Cho, 2017;Garg et al, 2018;Goodman et al, 2018;Graff Zivin, Hsiang, and Neidell, 2018). Further, two recent studies have shown that in utero heat exposure has lasting negative effects on long-term cognitive ability (Hu and Li, 2019) and adult earnings (Isen, Rossin-Slater, and Walker, 2017), highlighting the sensitivity of the prenatal period to extreme heat.…”

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What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health

Kim¹,

Lee²,

Rossin‐Slater³

2019

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Human Capital Costs of Climate Change: Evidence from Test Scores in India

Cited by 21 publications

References 53 publications

Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China

Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China

The Distribution of Environmental Damages

What to Expect When It Gets Hotter: The Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat on Maternal Health

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