Invisible Risk: How Temperature Extremes Shape Violence Against Women in Bolivia
Julieth Saenz-Molina (Fordham University) uses Bolivia’s stark geographic contrast between tropical lowlands and high-altitude Andean regions to show genuine heterogeneity in climate effects driven by local de-adaptation to certain temperatures.
Rebuild or Relocate? Recovery after Natural Disasters
Co-Winner of the 2025 E-Axes Forum Research Prize
Shifrah Aron-Dine (UC Berkeley) analyzes how post‑disaster policies that prioritize rebuilding interact with household incentives, migration, and infrastructure investment, might not improve welfare and resilience.
Information Effect Magnified under Output-based Climate Adaptation Subsidies
Yunyu Shu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics ) and Jiayue Zhang (Brown University) investigate how information shapes adaptation under different subsidy schemes among cocoa farmers in Ghana.
The Distributional Consequences of Climate Change: Housing Wealth, Expectations, and Uncertainty
Jeffrey Sun (University of Toronto) explores how changing and uncertain climate change expectations have the potential—through housing prices—to dramatically reallocate wealth across areas and between the rich and the poor.
Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates
Charles A. Taylor (Harvard Business School) and Marco Tabellini (Harvard Business School) introduce the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and establish several new results. They show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, as movers select destinations with climates similar to their place of origin.
Distributional impacts of climate change
Stéphane Hallegatte (Senior Climate Change Adviser at the World Bank) has selected his favorite papers on the distributional impacts of physical climate change.
Carbon pricing, central bank policy and inequality
Diego Känzig (London Business School) highlights research which analyzes how climate policy interacts with fiscal and monetary policies.