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A Stochastic Simulation Approach to Estimating the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Bangladesh

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  • James Thurlow
  • Paul Dorosh
  • Winston Yu

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Climate change assessments often inadequately address uncertainty when estimating damages. Using a dynamic economy-wide model of Bangladesh, we estimate and decompose damages from historical climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change. Our stochastic simulation approach avoids biases caused by non-linear damage functions and fixed occurrences of extreme events in historical data. Using ten climate projections, we find that future anthropogenic climate change damages until 2050 are, on average, one-fifth of those from historical climate variability.
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  • James Thurlow & Paul Dorosh & Winston Yu, 2012. "A Stochastic Simulation Approach to Estimating the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Bangladesh," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 16(3), pages 412-428, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:412-428
    DOI: j.1467-9361.2012.00671.x
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