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主讲人 |
Matthew Neidell |
简介 |
<p> Abstract:</p>
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<div>We provide the first estimates of the potential impact of climate change on human capital, focusing on the impacts from both short-run weather and long-run climate. Exploiting the longitudinal structure of the NLSY79 and random fluctuations in weather across interviews, we identify the effect of temperature in models with child-specific fixed effects. We find that short-run changes in temperature lead to statistically significant decreases in cognitive performance on math (but not reading) beyond 26C (78.8F). In contrast, our long-run analysis, which relies upon long-difference and rich cross-sectional models, find no statistically significant relationship between climate and human capital. This finding is consistent with the notion that adaptation, particularly compensatory behavior, plays a significant role in limiting the long run impacts from short run weather shocks.</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.iza.org/en/papers/1635_14042015.pdf">Download the paper</a></div> |
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主讲人简介 |
<p>Associate Professor </p>
<div>Department of Health Policy and Management </div>
<div>Mailman School of Public Health </div>
<div>Columbia University </div>
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<div><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~mn2191/">Prof. Matthew Neidell' Homepage</a></div>
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期数 |
"WISE-IZA" Seminar Series No. 117 (No.4 of 2015 Spring) |
