American Economic Review Vol. 99 No. 2 2009

Climate Change and Birth Weight

Olivier Deschênes¹; Michael Greenstone²; Jonathan Guryan³

¹ Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2127 North Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, and NBER. · ² Department of Economics, MIT, 50 Memorial Drive, E52–359, Cambridge, MA 02142, Brookings Institution, and NBER. · ³ University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 and NBER.

Abstract

There is a growing consensus that emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activity will alter the earth’s climate, most notably by causing temperatures, precipitation levels, and weather variability to increase. The design of optimal climate change mitigation policies requires estimates of the health and other benefits of reductions in greenhouse gases; current evidence on the magnitude of the direct and indirect impacts, however, is considered insufficient for reliable conclusions (A. J. McMichael et al. 2003).

DOI

10.1257/aer.99.2.211

Volume

99

Issue

2

Pages

211-217

Language

en

Sources

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