PA24A:
Social Impacts of Climate Variability

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Jesse Anttila-Hughes, University of San Francisco, Economics, San Francisco, CA, United States and Gordon C Mccord, University of Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Gordon C Mccord, University of Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Jesse Anttila-Hughes, University of San Francisco, Economics, San Francisco, CA, United States and Gordon C Mccord, University of Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jesse Anttila-Hughes, University of San Francisco, Economics, San Francisco, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Impacts of Weather Shocks on Murder and Drug Cartel Violence in Mexico
Edward Miguel, Solomon M Hsiang, Marshall Burke, Felipe Gonzalez and Ceren Baysan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
4:15 PM
 
Putting climate impact estimates to work: the empirical approach of the American Climate Prospectus
Amir Jina1, Solomon M Hsiang2, Robert E Kopp III3, DJ Rasmussen4 and James Rising1, (1)Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (4)Rhodium Group, Oakland, CA, United States
4:30 PM
 
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Laura Kawano, United States Treasury, Washington, DC, United States and Steven Levitt, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
4:45 PM
 
Human Responses to Climate Variability: The Case of South Africa
Michael Oppenheimer, Rachel Licker, Marina Mastrorillo, Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra, Lyndon D Estes and Ruohong Cai, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
5:00 PM
 
A Systems Approach to Climate, Water and Diarrhea in Hubli-Dharward, India
Jonathan Edward Mellor and Julie Zimmerman, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
5:15 PM
 
Coastal Storm Events and Property Damages Associated with Winter Storms in the Tri-State Area
Cari Shimkus1, Mingfang Ting1, Susana Beatriz Adamo2, Malgosia Madajewicz3, Yochanan Kushnir1 and James F Booth4, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States, (4)CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States
5:30 PM
 
Climate change and the impact of extreme temperatures on aviation
Ethan Coffel and Radley Horton, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
5:45 PM
 
Societal impact of space climate
Giovanni Lapenta, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
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