The welfare implications of climate change-related mortality: Inequality and population ethics

Marc Fleurbaey, Antonin Pottier and Stéphane Zuber

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: Climate change-related mortality may strongly affect human well-being. By reducing life expectancy, it reduces the well-being of some infividuals. This may exacerbate existing inequalities: ex-ante inequality among people in different groups or regions of the world; ex-post inequality in experienced well-being by people in the same generation. But mortality may also reduce total population size by preventing some individuals from having children. This raises the population-ethical problem of how total population size should be valued. This paper proposes a methodology to measure te welfare effects of climate change through population and inequality change. We illustrate the methodology using a climate-economy integrated assessment model involving endogenous population change due to climate change-related mortality

Keywords: Climate change-related mortality; fairness; inequality; population ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2020-07
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Working Paper: The welfare implications of climate change-related mortality: Inequality and population ethics (2020)
Working Paper: The welfare implications of climate change-related mortality: Inequality and population ethics (2020)
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