Marie Young-Brun
myoungbrun.bsky.social
Marie Young-Brun
@myoungbrun.bsky.social
Environment & climate econ | French Assistant Prof at Uni Leipzig / IWH Halle
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How does climate change impact the distribution of wealth? In Nature Climate Change we map out the impact channels.

There's a lot we don’t know yet & much depends on how societies decide to allocate burdens & upsides of climate change. 1/6

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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February 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics: Spatial Environmental Economics

🌍 How do spatial forces affect the environment? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes?

Thread, chapter explore this nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, building blocks for rsrch. w Clare Balboni.
January 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The first chapter of my PhD entitled **Who carries the burden of climate change? Heterogeneous impact of droughts in sub-Saharan Africa** has just been published in the *American Journal of Agricultural Economics*.
doi.org/10.1111/ajae...

Here is a summary of my findings!
Who carries the burden of climate change? Heterogeneous impact of droughts in sub‐Saharan Africa
Droughts can dramatically affect economic activities, especially in developing countries where more than half the labor force is in the agricultural sector. This paper highlights the causal impact of...
doi.org
January 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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You had a hunch climate change impacts would increase economic inequalities? You were right!
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November 22, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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We spent 4 years working on this paper about the scientific, legal, economic, and governance considerations of whether coastal and marine carbon dioxide removal can help close the emissions gap. Please take a look and tell me if it was worth it. 🌊
Can coastal and marine carbon dioxide removal help to close the emissions gap? Scientific, legal, economic, and governance considerations
In this Policy Bridge, we present the key issues regarding the safety, efficacy, funding, and governance of coastal and marine systems in support of climate change mitigation. Novel insights into the ...
online.ucpress.edu
September 5, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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Lots of pretty cool PhD positions at the University of Leipzig within the DFG-funded Research Training Group ECO-N, including two (co-)supervised by me.

Job ad: www.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/ul...

ECO-N website: www.uni-leipzig.de/en/economics...
December 21, 2023 at 2:40 PM
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Published today: Seasonal temperature variability and economic cycles

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In this paper, I study a very fundamental question of macroeconomics: to what extent can seasonality in GDP time-series be attributed to fluctuations in temperature?

A thread:
Seasonal temperature variability and economic cycles
This study examines the role of temperature as a driver of seasonal economic cycles. The study first presents a novel dataset of seasonal temperature …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2023 at 1:57 AM