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Advances in the Climate-Economy Literature: The Impact of Weather on Homicide, Deforestation, and Mortality.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Advances in the Climate-Economy Literature: The Impact of Weather on Homicide, Deforestation, and Mortality./
Author:	Behnke, Drew.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	143 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-12A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10599420
ISBN:	9780355271225

Advances in the Climate-Economy Literature: The Impact of Weather on Homicide, Deforestation, and Mortality.
Behnke, Drew.

Advances in the Climate-Economy Literature: The Impact of Weather on Homicide, Deforestation, and Mortality. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 143 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017.

My dissertation considers the role of weather on a variety of economic outcomes, including homicide, deforestation, and mortality. In chapter 1, in order to better understand why weather drives conflict, I focus my analysis on one of the most damaging forms of conflict: homicide. My results suggest that failing to recognize the potential for systematic differences across the homicide rate by race in the United States presents an inaccurate reflection of the true relationship between temperature and homicide. Previous research has found that colder temperatures decrease homicide while warmer temperature increase it. I find that black victims drive much of the negative effect for cold temperatures, while white victims drive the positive effect. While this finding alone is a new addition to the literature, these results are consistent with different mechanisms driving the relationship between temperature and homicide. For white victims, I cannot rule out the hypothesis that heat acts as a physiological stressor leading to violence and aggression. However, for black victims, and especially young black males, this hypothesis has limited support. Instead it appears that for black victims, an interactional mechanism plays a role, as colder temperatures reduce the homicide rate drastically.

ISBN: 9780355271225Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

Advances in the Climate-Economy Literature: The Impact of Weather on Homicide, Deforestation, and Mortality.
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