Wolfram Schlenker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6823141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfram Schlenker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfram |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlenker |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLENKER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6231-9944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences of Climate Hazards
As climate change intensifies, understanding the effects of climate hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, coastal and riverine flooding, tornadoes, heat waves, and extreme snowstorms is key to understanding patterns of inequality. In this introduction, we review a multidisciplinary literature on the social, political, and economic consequences of climate hazards for individuals and communities in the US. We explore how the risk of exposure to cl…
Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events
Asylum applications respond to temperature fluctuations
Warming stresses developing countries Weather-induced conflicts in developing countries spill over to developed countries through asylum applications. One approach to estimating the future impacts of climate change is to look at the effects of weather fluctuations. These transient shocks can be interpreted analytically as randomly distributed treatments applied to countries around the world. Missirian and Schlenker analyzed the relation between t…
Comparing and combining process-based crop models and statistical models with some implications for climate change
We compare predictions of a simple process-based crop model (Soltani and Sinclair 2012), a simple statistical model (Schlenker and Roberts 2009), and a combination of both models to actual maize yields on a large, representative sample of farmer-managed fields in the Corn Belt region of the United States. After statistical post-model calibration, the process model (Simple Simulation Model, or SSM) predicts actual outcomes slightly better than the…
Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health
We link daily air pollution exposure to measures of contemporaneous health for communities surrounding the twelve largest airports in California. These airports are some of the largest sources of air pollution in the US, and they experience large changes in daily air pollution emissions depending on the amount of time planes spend idling on the tarmac. Excess airplane idling, measured as residual daily taxi time, is due to network delays originat…
Greater Sensitivity to Drought Accompanies Maize Yield Increase in the U.S. Midwest
Predicting Responses to Drought The U.S. Corn Belt accounts for a sizeable portion of the world's maize growth. Various influences have increased yields over the years. Lobell et al. (p. 516 ; see the Perspective by Ort and Long ) now show that sensitivity to drought has been increasing as well. It seems that as plants have been bred for increased yield under ideal conditions, the plants become more sensitive to non-ideal conditions. A key factor…
Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change
Economists are increasingly using weather data and climate model output in analyses of the economic impacts of climate change. This article introduces weather data sets and climate models that are frequently used, discusses the most common mistakes economists make in using these products, and identifies ways to avoid these pitfalls. We first provide an introduction to weather data, including a summary of the types of data sets available, and then…
Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980
Climate change has decreased global maize and wheat production, while soybean and rice production have remained stable.
Optimal management of an ecosystem with an unknown threshold
Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture
There is widespread interest in the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and on the most effective investments to assist adaptation to these changes, yet the scientific basis for estimating production risks and prioritizing investments has been quite limited. Here we show that by combining historical crop production and weather data into a panel analysis, a robust model of yield response to climate change emerges …
Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans. These crops comprise two of the four largest sources of caloric energy produced and are thus critical for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level yields for these two crops, plus cotton (a warmer-weather crop), with a new fine-scale weather dataset that incorporates the whole distribution of temperatures within each day and across all days in the growin…
The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions
We link farmland values to climatic, soil, and socioeconomic variables for U.S. counties east of the 100th meridian, the historical boundary of agriculture not primarily dependent on irrigation. Degree days, a nonlinear transformation of the climatic variables suggested by agronomic experiments as more relevant to crop yield, gives an improved fit and increased robustness. Estimated coefficients are consistent with the experimental results. The m…
The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions
We link farmland values to climatic, soil, and socioeconomic variables for counties east of the 100th meridian, the historic boundary of agriculture not primarily dependent on irrigation. Degree days, a non-linear transformation of the climatic variables suggested by agronomic experiments as more relevant to crop yield gives an improved fit and increased robustness. Estimated coefficients are consistent with the experimental results. The model is…
Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach
Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach by Wolfram Schlenker, W. Michael Hanemann and Anthony C. Fisher. Published in volume 95, issue 1, pages 395-406 of American Economic Review, March 2005
Das 'Kulturelle Erbe' in der DDR: Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung und Kulturpolitik 1945-65
Das 'kulturelle Erbe' in der DDR: Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung und Kulturpolitik, 1945-1965.
Das »Kulturelle Erbe« in der DDR: Das literarische Traditionsverhältnis im Rahmen der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung und der Kulturpolitik von 1945–1965
Das 'kulturelle Erbe' in der DDR: Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung und Kulturpolitik, 1945-1965.
Das »Kulturelle Erbe« in der DDR: Das literarische Traditionsverhältnis im Rahmen der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung und der Kulturpolitik von 1945–1965
Das 'Kulturelle Erbe' in der DDR: Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung und Kulturpolitik 1945-65
Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach
Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach by Wolfram Schlenker, W. Michael Hanemann and Anthony C. Fisher. Published in volume 95, issue 1, pages 395-406 of American Economic Review, March 2005
The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions
We link farmland values to climatic, soil, and socioeconomic variables for U.S. counties east of the 100th meridian, the historical boundary of agriculture not primarily dependent on irrigation. Degree days, a nonlinear transformation of the climatic variables suggested by agronomic experiments as more relevant to crop yield, gives an improved fit and increased robustness. Estimated coefficients are consistent with the experimental results. The m…
The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions
We link farmland values to climatic, soil, and socioeconomic variables for counties east of the 100th meridian, the historic boundary of agriculture not primarily dependent on irrigation. Degree days, a non-linear transformation of the climatic variables suggested by agronomic experiments as more relevant to crop yield gives an improved fit and increased robustness. Estimated coefficients are consistent with the experimental results. The model is…
Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change
The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans. These crops comprise two of the four largest sources of caloric energy produced and are thus critical for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level yields for these two crops, plus cotton (a warmer-weather crop), with a new fine-scale weather dataset that incorporates the whole distribution of temperatures within each day and across all days in the growin…
Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture
There is widespread interest in the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and on the most effective investments to assist adaptation to these changes, yet the scientific basis for estimating production risks and prioritizing investments has been quite limited. Here we show that by combining historical crop production and weather data into a panel analysis, a robust model of yield response to climate change emerges …
Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980
Climate change has decreased global maize and wheat production, while soybean and rice production have remained stable.
Optimal management of an ecosystem with an unknown threshold
Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change
Economists are increasingly using weather data and climate model output in analyses of the economic impacts of climate change. This article introduces weather data sets and climate models that are frequently used, discusses the most common mistakes economists make in using these products, and identifies ways to avoid these pitfalls. We first provide an introduction to weather data, including a summary of the types of data sets available, and then…
Greater Sensitivity to Drought Accompanies Maize Yield Increase in the U.S. Midwest
Predicting Responses to Drought The U.S. Corn Belt accounts for a sizeable portion of the world's maize growth. Various influences have increased yields over the years. Lobell et al. (p. 516 ; see the Perspective by Ort and Long ) now show that sensitivity to drought has been increasing as well. It seems that as plants have been bred for increased yield under ideal conditions, the plants become more sensitive to non-ideal conditions. A key factor…
Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health
We link daily air pollution exposure to measures of contemporaneous health for communities surrounding the twelve largest airports in California. These airports are some of the largest sources of air pollution in the US, and they experience large changes in daily air pollution emissions depending on the amount of time planes spend idling on the tarmac. Excess airplane idling, measured as residual daily taxi time, is due to network delays originat…
Asylum applications respond to temperature fluctuations
Warming stresses developing countries Weather-induced conflicts in developing countries spill over to developed countries through asylum applications. One approach to estimating the future impacts of climate change is to look at the effects of weather fluctuations. These transient shocks can be interpreted analytically as randomly distributed treatments applied to countries around the world. Missirian and Schlenker analyzed the relation between t…
Comparing and combining process-based crop models and statistical models with some implications for climate change
We compare predictions of a simple process-based crop model (Soltani and Sinclair 2012), a simple statistical model (Schlenker and Roberts 2009), and a combination of both models to actual maize yields on a large, representative sample of farmer-managed fields in the Corn Belt region of the United States. After statistical post-model calibration, the process model (Simple Simulation Model, or SSM) predicts actual outcomes slightly better than the…
Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events
The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences of Climate Hazards
As climate change intensifies, understanding the effects of climate hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, coastal and riverine flooding, tornadoes, heat waves, and extreme snowstorms is key to understanding patterns of inequality. In this introduction, we review a multidisciplinary literature on the social, political, and economic consequences of climate hazards for individuals and communities in the US. We explore how the risk of exposure to cl…
Climate change (10 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (5 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Agronomy (5 works)