Human Capital and Climate Change

The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Winseck worked on the paper prior to joining Amazon. The authors thank Diego Ambasz and Javier Sanchez-Reaza for in-depth comments and expertise. Additional useful comments were provided by Rafael E. De Hoyos Navarro. The authors thank Domagoj Račić for his assistance in coding green party data in Europe and Anshuman Gupta for his careful coding of compulsory schooling law data. Finally, the authors thank Pedro Sant’Anna for his useful guidance on robust approaches to aggregating estimates across countries in a manner which addresses issues highlighted in the growing difference-in-differences literature. The cocktail pairing for this paper can be found here: https://www.joshgraffzivin.com/cocktail-pairings

• February 28, 2023