Intergenerational Equity, Social Discount Rates and Global Warming

By Partha Dasgupta, K. Mäler, Scott Barrett. 2000

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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program (2010, unknown): “Some have argued for a zero or negative social discount rate (Dasgupta et al., 2000).”
Thirteen plus one: a comparison of global climate policy architectures (2003, background): “One study has suggested that for climate change a negative discount rate is conceivable (Dasgupta et al., 1999).”
Time, space, place, and the Bonn Challenge global forest restoration target (2017, background): “…use social discount rates as opposed to private discount rates to account for the inter-generational nature of the decisions, although there is still significant debate over which discount rate is “correct” (Arrow et al. 1996; Dasgupta et al. 1999; Heal 2007; Broome 2008; Goulder & Williams 2012).”
Environmental Policy Theory Given Bounded Rationality and Other-regarding Preferences (2011, background): “Hyperbolic discounting in relation to climate change has been discussed by Arrow et al. (1996); Dasgupta et al. (1999); Howarth (2003); Settle and Shogren (2004); Karp (2005), and Brekke and Johansson-Stenman (2008).”
Natural Capital: From Metaphor to Measurement (2014, background): “…risk of a slight abuse of notation, we assume that the partial derivative of W includes the feedback through the economic program: WS s τð Þ; x s τð Þð Þð Þ = ∂W∂s + ∂W ∂x dx ds =W S ; where the asterisk indicates the elimination of x.4 The term δ is the social discount rate (Dasgupta et al. 1999).”
Comparative quantification of health risks: Conceptual framework and methodological issues (2003, background): “15 The functional form is 0Wia where 0 < a < 1 in Koopmans (1960) and 0Wiexp(-dt) where d > 0 in Dasgupta and Mäler (1994) and Dasgupta et al. (1999); a and d are the social rate of discount.”
Limitations of integrated assessment models of climate change (2009, background): “It has been noted before by Tol (1994), Amano (1997), and Dasgupta et al. (1999) that if environmental damage is sufficiently great so as to reduce consumption in the future, then g may be negative and the discount rate will actually be less than the pure rate of time preference.”
Uncertain Outcomes and Climate Change Policy (2012, methodology): “This is entirely consistent with the Ramsey growth model, as pointed out by Dasgupta et al (1999).”
Discounting climate change (2008, background): “See footnote 24. now to ease the problem than would be recommended by η=1) or a less immediate concern (i.e., do less now to ease the problem than would be recommended by η=1).”
THE CHOICE OF DISCOUNT RATE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY EVALUATION (2012, unknown): “13 However, Dasgupta et al. (1999) and Dasgupta (2008) point out that for some countries, it cannot be guaranteed that growth will be positive over the relevant time interval, particularly if there is severe climate change.”
Cost-benefit analysis in the context of ecosystem services for human well-being: A multidisciplinary critique (2011, background): “Furthermore, everlasting increases in total factor productivity or per capita income levels cannot be projected with any certainty (Dasgupta et al., 1999; Winkler, 2006).”