New IZA DPs -- Climate / Environment
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IZA Publications
Jan 23, 2026, 9:10:08 AMJan 23
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Dear Italo Gutierrez,
These new IZA Discussion Papers are now available online.
DP 18277 - del Salto-Calderón/Wilde:
Temperature and Contraceptive Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
DP 18281 - Naudé:
An Economist’s Ode to the Forests and the Sea
DP 18356 - Burda/Goeth/Zessner-Spitzenberg:
Capital Adjustment Costs and Stranded Assets in an Optimal Energy Transition
Please find the abstracts and download links below.
You might also be interested in this World of Labor content:
Key topic Environmental regulation and the labor market
IZA DP No. 18277
Katherine del Salto-Calderón, Joshua Wilde:
Temperature and Contraceptive Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Abstract:
This study estimates the effect of climate change on contraceptive use in a global context. We link women’s monthly contraceptive calendar data from the Demographic and Health Surveys in 44 low- and middle-income countries with high resolution daily temperature data, exploiting the random component of local temperature deviations to causally estimate this effect. We find that high temperatures impact contraceptive use, driven by changes in short-acting reversible contraception. However, these impacts are region-specific: while temperature shocks reduce contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, they increase in South and Southeast Asia. We find clear heterogeneities by education, age, parity, and urban/rural status. Our estimates imply that temperature-related climate change in sub-Saharan Africa – the most impacted region – will reduce contraceptive use by 2.4-4.3 percent by 2100. We conclude that the disproportionate worsening of climatic conditions in low- and middle-income countries will exacerbate already-existing global disparities in contraceptive access and use.
https://docs.iza.org/dp18277.pdf
IZA DP No. 18281
Wim Naudé:
An Economist’s Ode to the Forests and the Sea
Abstract:
The field of economics ought to be based on the fact that planet Earth is a rare Earth that is fundamentally an Ocean and Plant World. The rapid and continuing bulldozing of biodiversity across ocean and land that has been a feature of human society’s economic development over the past two centuries or so, demonstrates that the current political and economic response, framed by the narrow human-centric concept of sustainable development, has failed. Therefore, this paper calls for a fundamental planetary turn in perspective, moving beyond sustainability towards the biocentric concept of Planetary Habitability. The point is that fixing a slow leak in a spaceship (sustainability) is insufficient when the ship’s entire life support system is collapsing due to a fundamental design flaw (anthropocentrism); instead, the focus must shift to ensuring the entire ship can support life (habitability), regardless of immediate human convenience.
https://docs.iza.org/dp18281.pdf
IZA DP No. 18356
Michael C. Burda, Anna-Maria Goeth, Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg:
Capital Adjustment Costs and Stranded Assets in an Optimal Energy Transition
Abstract:
In the context of a green energy transition, capital adjustment costs render effective substitution between clean and dirty energy sources finite and endogenous, despite infinite long-run substitutability. Ramsey optimal paths robustly frontload clean investment before exhaustion of a given carbon budget, but also generally imply some capital stranding. Along the path of emissions reduction, new investment is quantitatively more important than reduced output or labor redeployment. An ambitious climate goal in our benchmark calibration implies modest levels of stranded capital at 1.5% of GDP, but this rises to more than 7% if implementation is delayed by a decade.
https://docs.iza.org/dp18356.pdf
Please click here to change your subscription status.
If you have trouble downloading the papers, or for any other questions regarding the IZA Discussion Paper Series, contact public...@iza.org.
These new IZA Discussion Papers are now available online.
DP 18277 - del Salto-Calderón/Wilde:
Temperature and Contraceptive Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
DP 18281 - Naudé:
An Economist’s Ode to the Forests and the Sea
DP 18356 - Burda/Goeth/Zessner-Spitzenberg:
Capital Adjustment Costs and Stranded Assets in an Optimal Energy Transition
Please find the abstracts and download links below.
You might also be interested in this World of Labor content:
Key topic Environmental regulation and the labor market
IZA DP No. 18277
Katherine del Salto-Calderón, Joshua Wilde:
Temperature and Contraceptive Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Abstract:
This study estimates the effect of climate change on contraceptive use in a global context. We link women’s monthly contraceptive calendar data from the Demographic and Health Surveys in 44 low- and middle-income countries with high resolution daily temperature data, exploiting the random component of local temperature deviations to causally estimate this effect. We find that high temperatures impact contraceptive use, driven by changes in short-acting reversible contraception. However, these impacts are region-specific: while temperature shocks reduce contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, they increase in South and Southeast Asia. We find clear heterogeneities by education, age, parity, and urban/rural status. Our estimates imply that temperature-related climate change in sub-Saharan Africa – the most impacted region – will reduce contraceptive use by 2.4-4.3 percent by 2100. We conclude that the disproportionate worsening of climatic conditions in low- and middle-income countries will exacerbate already-existing global disparities in contraceptive access and use.
https://docs.iza.org/dp18277.pdf
IZA DP No. 18281
Wim Naudé:
An Economist’s Ode to the Forests and the Sea
Abstract:
The field of economics ought to be based on the fact that planet Earth is a rare Earth that is fundamentally an Ocean and Plant World. The rapid and continuing bulldozing of biodiversity across ocean and land that has been a feature of human society’s economic development over the past two centuries or so, demonstrates that the current political and economic response, framed by the narrow human-centric concept of sustainable development, has failed. Therefore, this paper calls for a fundamental planetary turn in perspective, moving beyond sustainability towards the biocentric concept of Planetary Habitability. The point is that fixing a slow leak in a spaceship (sustainability) is insufficient when the ship’s entire life support system is collapsing due to a fundamental design flaw (anthropocentrism); instead, the focus must shift to ensuring the entire ship can support life (habitability), regardless of immediate human convenience.
https://docs.iza.org/dp18281.pdf
IZA DP No. 18356
Michael C. Burda, Anna-Maria Goeth, Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg:
Capital Adjustment Costs and Stranded Assets in an Optimal Energy Transition
Abstract:
In the context of a green energy transition, capital adjustment costs render effective substitution between clean and dirty energy sources finite and endogenous, despite infinite long-run substitutability. Ramsey optimal paths robustly frontload clean investment before exhaustion of a given carbon budget, but also generally imply some capital stranding. Along the path of emissions reduction, new investment is quantitatively more important than reduced output or labor redeployment. An ambitious climate goal in our benchmark calibration implies modest levels of stranded capital at 1.5% of GDP, but this rises to more than 7% if implementation is delayed by a decade.
https://docs.iza.org/dp18356.pdf
Please click here to change your subscription status.
If you have trouble downloading the papers, or for any other questions regarding the IZA Discussion Paper Series, contact public...@iza.org.
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