The welfare implications of climate change-related mortality: Inequality and population ethics
Marc Fleurbaey
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Aurélie Méjean
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Antonin Pottier
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Stéphane Zuber
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Résumé
Climate change-related mortality may strongly affect human well-being. By reducing life expectancy, it reduces the well-being of some infividuals. This may exacerbate existing inequalities: ex-ante inequality among people in different groups or regions of the world; ex-post inequality in experienced well-being by people in the same generation. But mortality may also reduce total population size by preventing some individuals from having children. This raises the population-ethical problem of how total population size should be valued. This paper proposes a methodology to measure te welfare effects of climate change through population and inequality change. We illustrate the methodology using a climate-economy integrated assessment model involving endogenous population change due to climate change-related mortality.
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The welfare implications of climate change-related mortality: Inequality and population ethics
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Climate change-related mortality may strongly affect human well-being. By reducing life expectancy, it reduces the well-being of some infividuals. This may exacerbate existing inequalities: ex-ante inequality among people in different groups or regions of the world; ex-post inequality in experienced well-being by people in the same generation. But mortality may also reduce total population size by preventing some individuals from having children. This raises the population-ethical problem of how total population size should be valued. This paper proposes a methodology to measure te welfare effects of climate change through population and inequality change. We illustrate the methodology using a climate-economy integrated assessment model involving endogenous population change due to climate change-related mortality.
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Marc Fleurbaey
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, Aurélie Méjean
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, Antonin Pottier
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, Stéphane Zuber
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PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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CNRS -
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
( 441569 )
- France
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CIRED -
Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement
( 1042364 )
- 45 bis, avenue de la Belle Gabrielle - 94736 Nogent-sur-Marne Cedex
- France
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CES -
Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
( 15080 )
- Maison des Sciences Économiques - 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75647 Paris Cedex 13
- France
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Anglais
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Non
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2020-03
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URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.cnrs.fr
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Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2020.26 - ISSN : 1955-611X
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inequality, fairness, Climate change-related mortality, population ethics
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