Does hotter temperature increase poverty and inequality? Global evidence from subnational data analysis

Climate change and its increasing threads have inspired a significant research on its impacts on a variety of outcomes, such as agriculture, labor productivity, among others. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence addressing the direct linkage between global warming and poverty on a global scale. One of the reasons is that poverty can widely vary within countries (as well as across countries). Thus, ignoring subnational variations in poverty analysis could easily mask its dynamic relationship with climatic conditions. Using a subnational poverty panel database and historical climate data, the authors analyze the effects of higher temperature on subnational poverty, potential mechanisms, and policy implications.

SPEAKER:

Trong-Anh Trinh is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University. Before joining Monash, he was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (University of Melbourne), and a Young Research Fellow at the World Bank, in the Data Production and Methods Unit. His research interests are the economics of child development and environmental economics, topics on which he has published several studies on journals such as Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Lancet Public Health, among others. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from RMIT University (Australia).

 

 

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