THE BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Presents

Olivier Deschenes
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Bren Hall 1424

"Assessing the Effect of Climate Change on Health"

Hosted by Matthew Kotchen

Abstract

The climate is a key ingredient in the Earth’s complex system that sustains human life and well-being. There is now a growing consensus that emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activity will alter the Earth’s climate, most notably by causing temperatures, precipitation levels, and weather variability to increase. It is believed that climate change is likely to affect human health directly through changes in temperature and precipitations and indirectly through changes in the ranges of disease vectors and other channels. This lecture will present an overview of the conceptual and statistical issues in measuring the health impact of climate change.

Biography

Olivier Deschenes is Associate Professor of Economics at UCSB and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass. His research areas are environmental economics, health economics, and labor economics. His ongoing research includes measuring the effect of cold waves and heat waves on mortality, measuring the impact of climate change in India, and studying the effect of ozone exposure on health in the United States. Deschenes received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2001. He also holds an MS and a BA from the University of Montreal.

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