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To study this variable, Dell, Jones, and Olken used decades of panel data with “distributed lag” from 125 countries, finding that changes in it affect growth rates, not just levels of output. For 10 points each:
[10h] The trade group ASHRAE’s (“ASH-ray’s”) Standard 55 concerns what variable? Cai (“tsai”), Lu, and Wang’s study of a Chinese paper cup factory is one of many to find an inverted-U relationship between this variable and productivity.
ANSWER: temperature [or air temperature; or average atmospheric temperature; or ambient temperature; accept thermal comfort; prompt on climate change; prompt on global warming; prompt on weather; prompt on AC or air conditioning by asking “what variable does that affect?”] (ASHRAE is the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers.)
[10m] This retired Yale economist has said that “optimal policy” might let global temperatures rise by up to 4 degrees Celsius. His DICE model of climate change earned him a Nobel in 2018.
ANSWER: William Nordhaus [or William Dawbney Nordhaus; or Bill Nordhaus]
[10e] A Nordhaus book on climate is titled for Managing the Global resource of this type, which can undergo a namesake “tragedy” if overused.
ANSWER: commons [or common-pool resource; accept Managing the Global Commons; accept tragedy of the commons]
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Penn StateArizona State001010
British ColumbiaOttawa0101020
NorthwesternChicago A0101020
Columbia BCornell B001010
WUSTL BGeorgia State001010
Chicago BGeorgia Tech001010
HarvardMIT001010
IndianaNorth Carolina A001010
Johns HopkinsToronto C001010
LSEFlorida001010
MinnesotaVirginia Tech001010
NYUUC Berkeley B0101020
VirginiaNorth Carolina B0101020
RITOhio State001010
RutgersToronto A001010
StanfordIllinois A0101020
TexasIowa State001010
Cornell AToronto B0101020
UCFMichigan001010
Illinois BVanderbilt001010
UC Berkeley AWUSTL A0101020
Columbia AWaterloo A0101020
Waterloo BYale0101020
MarylandWinona State001010