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DOI	10.1007/s10584-019-02515-5
	Temperature and production efficiency growth: empirical evidence
	Kumar S.; Khanna M.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	209
结束页码	229
卷号	156 期号:2020-01-02
英文摘要	This paper examines the marginal effects of temperature on the growth rate and variability in growth rate of total factor productivity (TFP) of a country, as measured by its production efficiency relative to a stochastic frontier. Using panel data for 168 countries for the period 1950–2014 to estimate a one-step stochastic frontier function, we find that temperature has a concave relationship with the growth rate of production efficiency and with the variability in this growth rate. We observe that hotter than the average temperature is not only detrimental to production efficiency growth but also makes the growth less stable than otherwise, and these effects are larger in very hot countries with average annual temperature greater than 25 °C. More importantly, we observe that the detrimental marginal effects of higher temperature depend on the level of economic development of a country; they are larger for poor countries relative to rich countries. Our findings have implications for the specification of climate damage functions in integrated assessment models and estimates of country-specific social cost of carbon. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Non-linear effects; Production efficiency growth; Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA); Temperature
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate models; Damage detection; Developing countries; Efficiency; Plants (botany); Stochastic systems; Telecommunication industry; Economic development; Integrated assessment models; Nonlinear effect; Production efficiency; Social cost of carbon; Stochastic frontier analysis; Stochastic frontier functions; Total factor productivity; Temperature; economic development; empirical analysis; factor productivity; growth rate; high temperature; nonlinearity; panel data; total factor productivity
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147404
作者单位	Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India; Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1301, W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kumar S.,Khanna M.. Temperature and production efficiency growth: empirical evidence[J],2019,156(2020-01-02).
APA	Kumar S.,&Khanna M..(2019).Temperature and production efficiency growth: empirical evidence.Climatic Change,156(2020-01-02).
MLA	Kumar S.,et al."Temperature and production efficiency growth: empirical evidence".Climatic Change 156.2020-01-02(2019).