Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?

Teevrat Garg (), Gordon McCord and Aleister Montfort ()
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Teevrat Garg: University of California, San Diego
Aleister Montfort: World Bank

No 13247, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Why do damages from changes in environmental quality differ across and within countries? Causal investigation of this question has been challenging because differences may stem from heterogeneity in cumulative exposure or differences in socioeconomic factors such as income. We revisit the temperature-violence relationship and show that cash transfers attenuate one-half to two-thirds of the effects of higher same-day temperatures on homicides. Our results not only demonstrate causally that income can explain much of the heterogeneity in the marginal effects of higher temperatures, but also imply that social protection programs can help the poor adapt to rising temperatures.

Keywords: temperature; cash transfers; violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 Q50 Q52 Q54 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2020-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env, nep-reg and nep-res
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