OLIVIER DESCHENES
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Working Papers

  • Input Subsidies and the Destruction of Natural Capital: Chinese Distant Water Fishing (with G. Englander, J. Zhang, J.C. Villasenor-Derbez, Q. Jiang, M. Hu, and C. Costello)
  • Researchers' Degrees-of-Flexibility and the Credibility of Difference-in-Differences Estimates:
    Evidence From the Pandemic Policy Evaluations
    (with J. Weill, M. Stigler, and M.Springborn)
  • ​Lockdowns and Innovation: Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic (with E. Berkes, R. Gaetani, J. Lin, and C. Severen)
  • ​​Weather and Death in India: Implications for Climate Change (with R. Burgess, D. Donaldson, and M. Greenstone)

Selected Publications

  • The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022
  • The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out (with Stephen Jarvis and Akshaya Jha), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022
  • Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19 Emergency Declarations Strongly Differentiated by Income (with Joakim Weill, Michael Springborn, and Mathieu Stigler), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
  • The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Review of Models and Empirical Studies (with Wouter Botzen and Mark Sanders), Review of  Environmental Economics and Policy, 2019
  • Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges (with Kyle Meng), Handbook of Environmental Economics, 2018
  • A Forward Looking Ricardian Approach: Do Land Markets Capitalize Climate Change Forecasts? (with Christopher Severen and Christopher Costello), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018
  • Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions (with Michael Greenstone and Joseph Shapiro), American Economic Review, 2017
  • Agricultural Pesticide Use and Adverse Birth Outcomes in the San Joaquin Valley of California (with Ashley Larsen and Steven Gaines), Nature Communications, 2017
  • Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century (with Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Michel Greenstone and Joseph Shapiro), Journal of Political Economy, 2016 
  • Convergence in Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004 (with A. Barreca, K. Clay, M. Greenstone and J. Shapiro), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2015
  • Temperature, Human Health, and Adaptation: A Review of the Empirical Literature, Energy Economics, 2014 
  • The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather: Reply (with Michael Greenstone), American Economic Review, 2012 (Online Appendix) (Supplementary Appendix) (Data)
  • Status and Solutions for the World's Unassessed Fisheries (with Christopher Costello, Daniel Ovando, Ray Hilborn, Steven Gaines and Sarah Lester), Science, 2012 (Supplementary Online Materials)
  • Climate Policy and Labor Markets in The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy, Edited by Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, University of Chicago Press, 2011
  • Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the U.S. (with Michael Greenstone), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011
  • Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration (with Enrico Moretti), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009
  • Climate Change and Birth Weight (with Michael Greenstone and Jonathan Guryan), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2009
  •  The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather (with Michael Greenstone), American Economic Review, 2007
  • The Long-Term Impact of Military Service on Health: Evidence from World War II and Korea Veterans (with Kelly Bedard), American Economic Review, 2006
  • Sex Preferences, Marital Dissolution and the Economic Status of Women (with Kelly Bedard), Journal of Human Resources, 2005
  • Do Unemployment Insurance Claimants Actively Seek Work? Evidence from Randomized Trial in Four U.S. States (with Orley Ashenfelter and David Ashmore), Journal of Econometrics, 2005

Unpublished Papers

Unobserved Ability, Comparative Advantage and the Rising Return to Education in the United States 1979-200

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