Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Burke, Marshall; Emerick, Kyle
• 署名单位: Stanford University; Stanford University; Tufts University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20130025
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 106-140
• 关键词: random fluctuations; economic-impacts; crop production; adoption; weather; errors; TRENDS; yields; output

摘要

Understanding the potential impacts of climate change on economic outcomes requires knowing how agents might adapt to a changing climate. We exploit large variation in recent temperature and precipitation trends to identify adaptation to climate change in US agriculture, and use this information to generate new estimates of the potential impact of future climate change on agricultural outcomes. Longer run adaptations appear to have mitigated less than half-and more likely none-of the large negative short-run impacts of extreme heat on productivity. Limited recent adaptation implies substantial losses under future climate change in the absence of countervailing investments.