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Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration

Mark D. Partridge¹; Bo Feng²; Mark Rembert²

¹ AED Economics (AEDE), The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, OH 43210, School of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, and Urban Studies, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy (e-mail: ) · ² The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, OH 43210, and AEDE (e-mail: )

Manmade climate change (CC) has catastrophic consequences. The United States has already experienced wholesale population realignment due to climate as households have relocated to the Sunbelt and West. The irony is that people are moving toward the heat and major storms associated with CC. As CC intensifies, with high rates of internal US factor mobility, firms and households will likely again relocate to areas with higher utility and profits, reducing CC costs. Yet current research typically focuses on CC costs in a given location without considering this realignment. We propose several avenues to overcome such shortcomings in US CC modeling.

DOI

10.1257/aer.p20171054

Volume

107 (5)

Pages

451-455

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en

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