A Patrick Behrer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1456426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Patrick Behrer |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrer |
| SIGNATURE | BEHRER A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6946-7213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding the migratory response to hurricanes and tropical storms in the USA
Current benefits of wildfire smoke for yields in the US Midwest may dissipate by 2050
Wildfires throughout western North America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change may increase the number and size of these fires and subsequent smoke plumes. These smoke plumes change solar radiation, meteorological conditions, and surface pollutant concentrations during the crop growing season and consequently influence yields of both corn and soybeans. We use a twelve-year …
Higher air pollution in wealthy districts of most low- and middle-income countries
Moving to Adaptation? Understanding the Migratory Response to Hurricanes in the United States
Using data on the paths of all hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin from 1992 to 2017, this paper studies whether migration has served as a form of adaptation to hurricane risk. The findings show that on average hurricanes have little to no impact on county out-migration, with population-weighted exposure to hurricanes increasing slightly over the sample period. Counties with high economic activity see net in-migration in the years after a hurricane.…
Higher levels of no-till agriculture associated with lower PM 2.5 in the Corn Belt
No-till approaches to agricultural soil management have been encouraged as a means of reducing soil erosion, reducing water pollution, and increasing carbon sequestration. An understudied additional benefit of no-till approaches may be improvements in local air quality. No-till approaches involve reductions in both machinery use and soil erosion, both of which could lead to improvements in air quality. We leverage recent advances in remote sensin…
Securing Property Rights
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice. We present a model of a polluter whose discharges harm multiple owners, and we compare property rules, liability rules, and regulation on efficiency grounds. We provide conditions under which property rules are preferred to liability rules, thus verifying the Calabresi-Melamed conjecture. Regulation that enforces partial abatement may be preferred to either of the extre…
Learning is inhibited by heat exposure, both internationally and within the United States
The Impact of Institutional and Land Use Change on Local Incomes in Chilean Patagonia
Many developing rural economies depend on natural capital stocks for generating income and wealth. However, common property natural resources are often over-exploited. One method of solving over-exploitation is privatisation of the resource. In Palena, Chile, the privatisation of common-property grazing land facilitated a change in land use from grazing to tourism activities. We present a theoretical model that demonstrates that privatisation tha…
Learning is inhibited by heat exposure, both internationally and within the United States
Securing Property Rights
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice. We present a model of a polluter whose discharges harm multiple owners, and we compare property rules, liability rules, and regulation on efficiency grounds. We provide conditions under which property rules are preferred to liability rules, thus verifying the Calabresi-Melamed conjecture. Regulation that enforces partial abatement may be preferred to either of the extre…
Higher air pollution in wealthy districts of most low- and middle-income countries
The Impact of Institutional and Land Use Change on Local Incomes in Chilean Patagonia
Many developing rural economies depend on natural capital stocks for generating income and wealth. However, common property natural resources are often over-exploited. One method of solving over-exploitation is privatisation of the resource. In Palena, Chile, the privatisation of common-property grazing land facilitated a change in land use from grazing to tourism activities. We present a theoretical model that demonstrates that privatisation tha…
Securing Property Rights
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice. We present a model of a polluter whose discharges harm multiple owners, and we compare property rules, liability rules, and regulation on efficiency grounds. We provide conditions under which property rules are preferred to liability rules, thus verifying the Calabresi-Melamed conjecture. Regulation that enforces partial abatement may be preferred to either of the extre…
Learning is inhibited by heat exposure, both internationally and within the United States
Higher levels of no-till agriculture associated with lower PM 2.5 in the Corn Belt
No-till approaches to agricultural soil management have been encouraged as a means of reducing soil erosion, reducing water pollution, and increasing carbon sequestration. An understudied additional benefit of no-till approaches may be improvements in local air quality. No-till approaches involve reductions in both machinery use and soil erosion, both of which could lead to improvements in air quality. We leverage recent advances in remote sensin…
Moving to Adaptation? Understanding the Migratory Response to Hurricanes in the United States
Using data on the paths of all hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin from 1992 to 2017, this paper studies whether migration has served as a form of adaptation to hurricane risk. The findings show that on average hurricanes have little to no impact on county out-migration, with population-weighted exposure to hurricanes increasing slightly over the sample period. Counties with high economic activity see net in-migration in the years after a hurricane.…
Current benefits of wildfire smoke for yields in the US Midwest may dissipate by 2050
Wildfires throughout western North America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change may increase the number and size of these fires and subsequent smoke plumes. These smoke plumes change solar radiation, meteorological conditions, and surface pollutant concentrations during the crop growing season and consequently influence yields of both corn and soybeans. We use a twelve-year …
Higher air pollution in wealthy districts of most low- and middle-income countries
Understanding the migratory response to hurricanes and tropical storms in the USA
Economics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Meteorology (3 works) · Air pollution (2 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (2 works) · Atlantic hurricane (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (2 works)