Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas
One additional day >32 °C (90 °F) lowers annual payroll by 0.04%, equal to 2.1% of average weekly earnings.
Economic impacts of tipping points in the climate system
We synthesize this emerging literature and provide unified, geophysically realistic estimates of the economic impacts of eight climate tipping points.
Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon
Advice to the Biden administration as it seeks to account for mounting losses from storms, wildfires and other climate impacts.
Carbon Pricing and Innovation in a World of Political Constraints
NYU Wagner workshop held on March 19-20, 2020.
Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely
A simple model of climate negotiations shows how the mere threat of risky geoengineering might help induce a high-mitigation agreement.
India in the coming 'climate G2'?
India, not China, will soon be the most significant counterweight to the United States in global climate negotiations.
Declining CO₂ price paths
In contrast to most modeled carbon price paths, our calibration suggests a high "optimal" CO2 price today that is expected to decline over time
Highly decentralized solar geoengineering
At ~$5/kg SO2 delivered, balloons are only ~4x as expensive as high-altitude aircraft
Policy design for the Anthropocene
Today, more than ever, ‘Spaceship Earth’ is an apt metaphor as we chart the boundaries for a safe planet. What can social scientists contribute to this conversation?
Prescriptivism, risk aversion, and intertemporal substitution in climate economics
A new conceptual framework for the age-old prescriptivism-versus-descriptivism debate
