CMCC Online Seminar
July 19, 2021 – h. 12:30 pm CEST

Speaker – Teresa Randazzo: CMCC@Ca’ Foscari and Department of Economics, Venice Ca’ Fosari University

Introduced by – Enrica De Cian: CMCC@Ca’ Foscari, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) and Venice Ca’ Foscari University

Abstract:

Do remittances improve the ability of households to adapt to global warming? We explore this question by exploiting a nationally-representative household data from Mexico, a country that experiences a large and stable flow of remittances. Mexican households respond to the high temperature levels by purchasing air-conditioning, which is on the rise. We inquire to what extent remittances are used to adopt and operate space cooling devices that contribute to maintaining thermal comfort at home. We find an important role of remittances in the climate adaptation process, with large differences between coast and inland regions as well among income groups. Finally, we conclude by showing the overall welfare increase that households gain by adopting air-conditioning.

Speaker’s short bio:

Teresa Randazzo is a Junior Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”. She has joined the research team led by Enrica De Cian on the project “ENERGYA- Energy use for adaptation”.

She completed a PhD in Economics at the University of Kent (UK) in 2014. Her PhD thesis focused on the impact of migration and remittances on developing countries. Following her PhD, she spent 14 months as research assistant at the University of Kent and two years as postdoctoral fellow respectively at IMT Lucca and University of Bari “Aldo Moro”.

She is a member of the “Equalchances.org database” which is the world’s first online repository of internationally comparable information on inequality of opportunity and socio-economic mobility and she collaborates with the integgra.org project “Initiative on Education, Gender and Growth in Asia”.

Her main research interests are in the area of Development Economics covering the fields of Economics of Migration, Labour Economics and Applied Microeconometrics.

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CONTACTS

Elena Niero – [email protected]

ORGANIZED BY

Fondazione CMCC – Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

Università Ca’Foscari Venezia

RFF-CMCC – European Institute on Economics and the Environment