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Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
Marshall Burke, Stanford UniversitySolomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley
World BankSeptember 2015
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Motivation• Climate change is one of the most important international
development challenges of our time– Impacts are possible across a range of development areas,
including agriculture, energy, health, migration, conflict, …
• Projections of future climate impacts matter for (potentially expensive) policy decisions today, e.g., December 2015 Paris climate conference
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Motivation• Key policy question: what is the cost of emitting a ton of
carbon today?
𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 𝑆𝑆𝑜𝑜 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑆𝑆𝑐𝑐 = ∑𝑡𝑡=0∞ 𝛿𝛿𝑡𝑡 𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝑇𝑇𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝑇𝑇𝑡𝑡
𝜕𝜕𝑇𝑇𝜕𝜕𝜕𝜕𝑇𝑇𝑡𝑡𝜕𝜕𝐶𝐶0𝐶𝑡𝑡
𝜕𝜕𝐶𝐶0𝐶𝑡𝑡𝜕𝜕𝐸𝐸𝜕𝜕𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡
• Today’s talk: generate econometric estimates of the damage function with respect to economic growth
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Climate science
Economics
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Damage functions in existing models• Integrated assessment models
(IAM’s) are widely used in climate policy debates
• They assert that damages will be minimal up to 2-3 C, increasing beyond that
• Consider a -3% effect by 2100• An economy growing 1% per
year is 133% richer in 85 years• With climate change of +4C,
only 130% richer
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Damage functions in existing models• So, no need to worry? Many critiques of these models:1) Pindyck (JEL, 2013): “The damage functions used in most
IAM’s are completely made up, with no theoretical or empirical foundation.”
2) Revesz, Arrow, Goulder, et al. (Nature 2014): “The models should be revised more frequently to accommodate scientific developments.”
Limitations: developed in the 1990s; calibrated for moderate warming, not large changes; based mainly on out-of-date rich country estimates; ignore many plausible channels; do not allow for effects of climate on economic growth; ...
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Recent micro-estimates of climate
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Labor supply(Graff Zivin and Neidell 2014)
Labor productivity(Hsiang 2010)
Crop yields(Schlenker andRoberts 2009)
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Linking micro-estimates to macro
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Labor supply(Graff Zivin and Neidell 2014)
Labor productivity(Hsiang 2010)
Crop yields(Schlenker andRoberts 2009)
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This study• Estimate climate impacts on economic growth, allowing for
non-linearities in the relationship• Annual data for 166 countries for 1960-2010• WDI for growth, U Delaware for temperature/precipitation:
∆𝑌𝑌𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡 = 𝑔𝑔 𝑇𝑇𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡 + 𝜆𝜆1𝑃𝑃𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡 + 𝜆𝜆𝐶𝑃𝑃𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡𝐶 + 𝜇𝜇𝐸𝐸 + 𝛾𝛾𝑡𝑡 + 𝜃𝜃1𝐸𝐸𝑐𝑐 + 𝜃𝜃𝐶𝐸𝐸𝑐𝑐𝐶 + 𝜀𝜀𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡
• Also include additional lags of temperature to estimate persistent growth effects
• Builds on the seminal work by Dell, Jones and Olken (2012); earlier Miguel et al. (2004), Barrios et al. (2010), and others show growth sensitive to climate.
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*Quadratic temperature term, P < 0.01
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Robustness to functional form of g(T)
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How solid is conventional wisdom?• Conventional wisdom in economics (sometimes built in IAM’s):1) Wealth insulates societies from the effects of climate
2) Economic productivity has become less sensitive to climate over time (adaptation)
3) Agriculture is sensitive to climate but not other sectors
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How solid is conventional wisdom?• Conventional wisdom in economics (sometimes built in IAM’s):1) Wealth insulates societies from the effects of climate Perhaps partially: there is a somewhat flatter response for rich countries but not statistically distinguishable from the poor
2) Economic productivity has become less sensitive to climate over time (adaptation) Not for this outcome
3) Agriculture is sensitive to climate but not other sectors Not really: both appear sensitive to temperature, with agriculture somewhat more so (consistent with micro findings)
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Are there persistent growth effects?• Test for growth effects by summing up contemporaneous and
lagged terms (for us, to t-5 years)• “Temporary” level effects: effects in year t and t+1 are equal in
magnitude and opposite sign
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Growth effects of climate
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Growth effects of climate
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Are there persistent growth effects?• Test for growth effects by summing up contemporaneous and
lagged terms (for us, to t-5 years)• “Temporary” level effects: effects in year t and t+1 are equal in
magnitude and opposite sign
• There is some evidence or persistent growth effects: lagged terms sometimes statistically significant
Why? Shocks could reduce investment, hurting future productivity; investments may go towards adaptation measures as the climate changes (rather than productive capital); economic shocks could trigger violence and political instability that lowers productivity (Hsiang, Burke and Miguel 2013)
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Projecting climate change impacts• Project future GDP per capita for country i (Yit) to 2100 as a
function of the estimated temperature effects, g(T):𝑌𝑌𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡 = 𝑌𝑌𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡−1 ∗ {1 + 𝜂𝜂𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡 + 𝑔𝑔 𝑇𝑇𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡+ − 𝑔𝑔 �𝑇𝑇 }
• Projected temperature 𝑇𝑇𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡+ is the median of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) ensemble, under the “business as usual” RCP8.5 scenario of high GHG emissions
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Projecting climate change impacts• Project future GDP per capita for country i (Yit) to 2100 as a
function of the estimated temperature effects, g(T):𝑌𝑌𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡 = 𝑌𝑌𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡−1 ∗ {1 + 𝜂𝜂𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡 + 𝑔𝑔 𝑇𝑇𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡+ − 𝑔𝑔 �𝑇𝑇 }
• Projected temperature 𝑇𝑇𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡+ is the median of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) ensemble, under the “business as usual” RCP8.5 scenario of high GHG emissions
• The “baseline” growth rate 𝜂𝜂𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡 is computed either as the average over 1980-2010, or using the “Shared Socioeconomic Pathways” (SSP’s) developed by the climate community
• SSP3 (slow growth, ~1% per annum); SSP5 (rapid growth, ~3%)
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: Rapid growth scenario : Slow growth scenario
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: Rapid growth scenario : Slow growth scenario
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High likelihood of negative impacts
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Relative to no climate change
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>75% countries worse off
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Risk of rising global income inequality
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Benchmark -23% impact
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Projected effects far larger than IAM’s
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Economic growth effects are a key difference
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• We use slightly longer time series, and updated data; and slightly different empirical specification than DJO 2012
• The quadratic temperature term in DJO 2012 is only marginally significant and they focus on linear specifications, separately for rich and poor countries
Results using a quadratic specification are very similar regardless of data series and other econometric modeling choices
Their linear specification yields much more “optimistic” projections of future climate impacts, in part because the point estimate for rich countries is positive (but small, not significant)
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Comparison to Dell, Jones, Olken 2012
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Comparison to Dell, Jones, Olken 2012
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Conclusions1. A non-linear effect of temperature on growth historically
• No significant differences between rich and poor countries• No evidence of meaningful adaptation over time
2. High likelihood of large losses under future climate change• Under “business as usual” emissions, 51-71% odds global
income per capita is >20% lower by 2100• Low income regions are at greatest risk
3. Loss estimates are far larger than existing damage functions, despite fact that our effects only work through temperature• Losses an order of magnitude larger than leading IAM’s
Much more investment in mitigation is likely to be optimal
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Non-linearity, conditional on income
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Robustness of non-linearity
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Robustness of non-linearity (2)
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No significant rich-poor difference
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No significant rich-poor difference (2)
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