Suchergebnisse

Heterogeneous yield impacts from adoption of genetically engineered corn and the importance of controlling for weather /Jayson L. Lusk, Jesse Tack, and Nathan P. Hendricks --Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on US agricultural productivity: evidence and projection /Sun Ling Wang, Eldon Ball, Richard Nehring, Ryan Williams, and Truong Chau --Farming under weather risk: adaptation, moral hazard, and selection on moral hazard /Hsing-Hsiang Huang and Michael R. Moore --Intranational trade costs, reallocation, and technical change: evidence from a Canadian agricultural trade policy reform /Mark Brown, Shon M. Ferguson, and Crina Viju-Miljusevic --Electricity prices, groundwater, and agriculture: the environmental and agricultural impacts of electricity subsidies in India /Reena Badiani-Magnusson and Katrina Jessoe --Estimating the impact of crop diversity on agricultural productivity in South Africa /Cecilia Bellora, Élodie Blanc, Jean-Marc Bourgeon, and Eric Strobl --Crop disease and agricultural productivity: evidence from a dynamic structural model of verticillium wilt management /Christine L. Carroll, Colin A. Carter, Rachael E. Goodhue, and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell --Willingness to pay for low water footprint foods during drought /Hannah Krovetz, Rebecca Taylor, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas.

Adaptation is the only strategy that is guaranteed to be part of the world's climate strategy. Using the most comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th century, this paper makes two primary discoveries. First, we find that the mortality effect of an extremely hot day declined by about 80% between 1900-1959 and 1960-2004. As a consequence, days with temperatures exceeding 90ʻF were responsible for about 600 premature fatalities annually in the 1960-2004 period, compared to the approximately 3,600 premature fatalities that would have occurred if the temperature-mortality relationship from before 1960 still prevailed. Second, the adoption of residential air conditioning (AC) explains essentially the entire decline in the temperature-mortality relationship. In contrast, increased access to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days. Residential AC appears to be both the most promising technology to help poor countries mitigate the temperature related mortality impacts of climate change and, because fossil fuels are the least expensive source of energy, a technology whose proliferation will speed up the rate of climate change

Disability, health and retirement in the United Kingdom / James Banks, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio, and Carl Emmerson -- Disability insurance, population health and employment in Sweden / Lisa Jönsson, Mårten Palme, and Ingemar Svensson -- Health, disability and pathways into retirement in Spain / Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall Castelló -- Health status, welfare programs participation and labor force activity in Italy / Agar Brugiavini and Franco Peracchi -- Disability programs, health and retirement in Denmark since 1960 / Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen -- Disability in Belgium : there is more than meets the eye / Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre, and Sergio Perelman -- Disability, pension reform and early retirement in Germany / Axel Börsch-Supan and Hendrik Jürges -- Disability and social security reforms : the French case / Luc Behaghel, Didier Blanchet, Thierry Debrand and Muriel Roger -- Disability insurance programs in Canada / Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan -- The long-run growth of disability insurance in the United States / Kevin Milligan -- Disability pension program and labor force participation in Japan : an historical perspective / Takashi Oshio and Satoshi Shimizutani -- Disability insurance and labor market exit routes of older workers in the Netherlands / Klaas de Vos, Arie Kapteyn, and Adriaan Kalwij

Financing retirement -- Were they prepared for retirement? : financial status at advanced ages in the HRS and AHEAD cohorts / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise ; comment, David Laibson -- Economic preparation for retirement / Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder ; comment, Robert J. Willis -- How well are Social Security recipients protected from inflation? / Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, and Sita Nataraj Slavov ; comment, Michael D. Hurd -- The availability and utilization of 401(k) loans / John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian ; comment: Gopi Shah Goda -- Health and health care -- Dimensons of health in the elderly population / David M. Cutler and Mary Beth Landrum ; comment, David R. Weir -- The value of progress against cancer in the elderly / Jay Bhattacharya, Alan M. Garber, Matthew Miller, and Daniella Perlroth ; comment, Amitabh Chandra -- Self reported disability and reference groups / Arthur van Soest, Tatiana Andreyeva, Arie Kapteyn, and James P. Smith ; comment, David M. Cutler -- "Healthy, wealthy and wise?" revisited : an analysis of the causal pathways from socioeconomic status to health / Till Stowasser, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter ; comment, Robert J. Willis -- Childhood health and differences in late-life health outcomes between England and the United States / James Banks, Zoe Oldfield, and James P. Smith ; comment, Amitabh Chandra -- The financial crisis and the well-being of America / Angus Deaton ; comment, Daniel McFadden