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| Title: | The productivity impact of climate change : evidence from Australia's millennium drought | Authors: | Sheng, Y Xu, X |
Issue Date: | Jan-2019 | Source: | Economic modelling, Jan. 2019, v. 76, p. 182-191 | Abstract: | The economic impact of climate change has usually been estimated based on changes in average weather condition and is often measured in terms of immediate loss of output or profit. Yet little is known about the impact of extreme weather event, in particular its impact on productivity in the medium to long term. Using Australia's Millennium drought as a case of extreme weather event and applying the synthetic control method, we show that severe droughts occurred between 2002 and 2010 has brought down agricultural total factor productivity by about 18 percent in Australia over the period, contributing significantly to the country's long-term slowdown of agricultural total factor productivity growth. Our results highlight the significance of productivity impact of extreme weather events that has been overlooked when accessing the economic impact of climate change. | Keywords: | Climate change Extreme weather events Millennium drought Total factor productivity |
Publisher: | Elsevier | Journal: | Economic modelling | ISSN: | 0264-9993 | EISSN: | 1873-6122 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.econmod.2018.07.031 | Rights: | © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. © 2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The following publication Sheng, Y., & Xu, X. (2019). The productivity impact of climate change: Evidence from Australia's Millennium drought. Economic Modelling, 76, 182-191 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2018.07.031. |
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