Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration

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 in...

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Published inThe American economic review Vol. 107; no. 5; pp. 451 - 455
Main Authors Partridge, Mark D., Feng, Bo, Rembert, Mark
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Nashville American Economic Association 01.05.2017
Subjects
Climate change
Climate change adaptation
Climate change migration
Economic costs
Economic models
Households
Human migration
Hurricanes
Irony
Migration
MIGRATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE: LOCATION CHOICE IN RESPONSE TO RAPID- AND SLOW-ONSET CLIMATE EVENTS
Mobility
Profits
Realignment
Storms
Weather
Winter
United States > US
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/aer.p20171054