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Title: Essays in Environmental and Climate Economics
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2025
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Abstract: This dissertation focuses on two aspects of environmental economics: (1) understanding the impacts of climate change on economic systems and individual decisions and (2) informing the design of environmental policies to foster adaptation to future climate risks. It aims to provide evidence of both academic and policy interests, combining diverse sources of data—censuses and surveys, satellite imagery, climate projections—with modeling tools from the empirical industrial organization literature. The first chapter, Protect or Prepare? Crop Insurance and Adaptation in a Changing Climate, explores one trade-off governments face when designing weather insurance policies. On the one hand, offering assistance to individuals and businesses to insure their assets and revenues against climate risk lowers the financial strains extreme weather events put on the economy. On the other hand, interventions in the insurance market may slow down the adoption of costly adaptation technologies and increase the climate vulnerability of the system in the future. I study this question in the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program context. This program regulates weather protection insurance and offers large premium subsidies to farmers. On average, farmers pay only 40% of the price of their insurance and subsidies add to between 5 and 10 billion dollars annually
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Authors: Obolensky, Marguerite
Institution: Columbia University
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Pages: 1-265
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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Natural Resource Management
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