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Articles by Olivier Deschênes
Internal Migration and the Spatial Reorganization of Agriculture
We thank Werner Antweiler, Marc Bellemare, Francisco Costa, Bruno Esposito, Rick Hornbeck, and Carol McAusland for insightful comments. We also thank participants at the UCSD 21CIC Seminar, CREEA, Occasional Workshop, OSWEET, PacDev, AERE Summer Conference, Berkeley ARE, UMN Applied Economics, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Yale Environmental Economics seminar, and Paris Dauphine University.
The Climate Adaptation Feedback
ACM are joint first authors. ACMD conceived of the project. ACM conducted the analysis. ACMD contributed to writing. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. We thank Max Auffhammer, Chris Costello, Ranjit Deshmukh, Kelsey Jack, Michael Oppenheimer, Andrew Plantinga, Ashwin Rode, Peter Sherman, and participants at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (UCSB) and Environmental Markets Lab (UCSB) seminars for helpful comments.
A breath of fresh air: Coal power plant closures and health in China
Coal-fired power plants have been a major source of electricity worldwide, accounting for 37% of global electricity production currently and projected to produce 22% of the world's electricity by 2040, according to the World Coal Association.3 However, they also generate 30% of global carbon dioxide emissions, as reported by the International Energy Agency in 2018.4 Moreover, coal power plants also generate a variety of harmful pollutants that can directly impact human health, such as sulfur...
Well setbacks limit California’s oil supply with larger health benefits and employment losses than excise and carbon taxes - Nature Energy
Compared to excise taxes and carbon taxes, setback restrictions on new oil wells have larger health benefits and worker compensation losses, but are more equitable by bringing greater benefits and lower losses to disadvantaged communities in California. For California to meet green gas emissions (GHG) targets, larger setbacks than currently proposed or additional supply-side policies are needed.
Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California’s oil extraction - Nature Energy
Author notes These authors contributed equally: Ranjit Deshmukh, Paige Weber, Kyle Meng. Authors and Affiliations Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Ranjit Deshmukh, Tia Kordell, Ruiwen Lee, Tracey Mangin, Sandy Sum, Vincent Thivierge & Kyle C.
The economics of saignée in winemaking
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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
Skip to main content This paper was written for a State of the Art Lecture at the 2021 Canadian Economics Association Meeting. I thank participants at the 2021 CEA meeting, seminar participants at Aix-Marseille School of Economics and Université de Montpellier, and my colleagues Tamma Carleton and Kyle Meng for their helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Cutting back on work during Covid: How was it done?
Unemployment in the US and elsewhere rose drastically during the Covid crisis, rising from 3.5% in February 2020 to an average of 7.7% from May 2020 through June 2021. Employment fell nearly commensurately, from 158.9 million workers to an average 148.1 million workers.
Improving equity outcomes in the low-carbon transition of California’s oil extraction and refining
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Researchers' Degrees-of-Flexibility and the Credibility of Difference-in-Differences Estimates: Evidence From the Pandemic Policy Evaluations
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented policy responses and a large literature evaluating their impacts. This paper re-examines this literature and investigates the role of researchers' degrees-of-flexibility on the estimated effects of mobility-reducing policies on social-distancing behavior. We find that two-way fixed effects estimates are not robust to minor changes in usually-unexplored dimensions of the degree-of-flexibility space.
Opinion: California’s road to decarbonization
By David Lea, Kyle Meng, Olivier Deschenes, Ranjit Deshmukh and Paige Weber The world is jointly confronting two pressing issues: climate change and rising inequality. These problems are also intricately linked. The imperative to address climate change is overlaid on a world that is deeply unequal, which is likely to worsen under climate change. Yet, at the same time, there may be opportunities for well-designed climate policies that may also reduce existing inequities.
Lockdowns and Innovation: Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)—policies that restrict interactions in an attempt to slow the spread of disease—on local invention. We construct a panel of issued patents and NPIs adopted by 50 large US cities during the 1918 flu pandemic.
Social distancing responses to COVID-19 emergency declarations strongly differentiated by income
Abstract In the absence of a vaccine, social distancing measures are one of the primary tools to reduce the transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We show that social distancing following US state-level emergency declarations substantially varies by income.
Social distancing responses to COVID-19 emergency declarations strongly differentiated by income
Abstract In the absence of a vaccine, social distancing measures are one of the primary tools to reduce the transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We show that social distancing following US state-level emergency declarations substantially varies by income.
The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
The authors thank seminar participants at the University of Wyoming, the University of Texas-Austin, and at Regensberg University for their comments and suggestions. The authors also wish to acknowledge the Library at the University of California, Berkeley, which provided support for the completion of this research. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
Author Abstract Many countries have phased out nuclear electricity production in response to concerns about nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear accidents. This paper examines the impact of the shutdown of roughly half of the nuclear production capacity in Germany after the Fukushima accident in 2011. We use hourly data on power plant operations and a novel machine learning framework to estimate how plants would have operated differently if the phase-out had not occurred.
Agricultural pesticide use and adverse birth outcomes in the San Joaquin Valley of California
Concerns about the effects of harmful environmental exposure on birth outcomes have existed for decades. Great advances have been made in understanding the effects of smoking and air pollution, among others, yet research on the effects of pesticides has remained inconclusive.
Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the US Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the Twentieth Century
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the US Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the Twentieth Century
This paper examines the temperature-mortality relationship over the course of the twentieth-century United States both for its own interest and to identify potentially useful adaptations for coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with mean temperature exceeding 80°F declined by 75 percent. Almost the entire decline occurred after 1960.
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