Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration
American Economic Review
vol. 107,
no. 5, May 2017
(pp. 451-55)
Abstract
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.Citation
Partridge, Mark D., Bo Feng, and Mark Rembert. 2017. "Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration." American Economic Review, 107 (5): 451-55. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171054Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- J11 Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Q54 Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
- R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
- R32 Other Spatial Production and Pricing Analysis