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Robert Mendelsohn

Robert Mendelsohn

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Economics and Finance
USA
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
91
Citations
31910
World Ranking
166
National Ranking
120

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award

Overview

Robert Mendelsohn is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their research topics cover a diverse range, with a particular focus on:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Forest Management and Policy

Some of Robert Mendelsohn's recent papers include:

  • Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change (2023), Journal of Economic Literature
  • Health risks of heavy metals in food and their economic burden in Armenia (2023), Environment International
  • Climate change to increase crop failure in U.S. (2022), Environmental Research Letters
  • Assessing the long-term interactions of climate change and timber markets on forest land and carbon storage (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • Economic vulnerability to tropical storms on the southeastern coast of Africa (2020), Jàmbá Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mendelsohn include:

  • Lea Nicita
  • Seung Min Kim
  • Jonghyun Yoo
  • Alice Favero
  • Hao Deng

Publication venues where Robert Mendelsohn has contributed multiple works are:

  • Climate Change Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Atmosphere
  • Environment International

Additional scholarly contributions include a book published with World Scientific titled Climate Change Economics (2021).

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Reply

    Robert Mendelsohn;William D. Nordhaus

  • The Economic Impacts of Climate Change : Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather

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  • MERGE. A model for evaluating regional and global effects of GHG reduction policies

    Alan Manne;Robert Mendelsohn;Richard Richels

  • Valuation of an Amazonian rainforest

    Charles M. Peters;Alwyn H. Gentry;Robert O. Mendelsohn

  • The distributional impact of climate change on rich and poor countries

    Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar;Larry Williams

  • Will African agriculture survive climate change

    Pradeep Kurukulasuriya;Robert Mendelsohn;Rashid Hassan;James Benhin

  • Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy

    Nicholas Z. Muller;Robert Mendelsohn;William Nordhaus

  • Climate Change, Agriculture, and Developing Countries: Does Adaptation Matter?

    Ariel Dinar;Robert Mendelsohn

  • An Optimal Control Model of Forest Carbon Sequestration

    Brent Sohngen;Robert Mendelsohn

  • Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right

    Nicholas Z. Muller;Robert Mendelsohn

  • Country-Specific Market Impacts of Climate Change

    Robert Mendelsohn;Wendy Morrison;Michael E. Schlesinger;Natalia G. Andronova

  • The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in Developing Countries

    Robert Mendelsohn

  • Measuring the damages of air pollution in the United States

    Nicholas Z. Muller;Robert Mendelsohn

  • A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on African Cropland

    Pradeep Kurukulasuriya;Robert Mendelsohn

  • Climate, Water, and Agriculture

    Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar

  • An analysis of crop choice: Adapting to climate change in South American farms ☆

    S. Niggol Seo;Robert Mendelsohn

  • Efficient Adaptation to Climate Change

    Robert Mendelsohn

  • Forest Management, Conservation, and Global Timber Markets

    Brent Sohngen;Robert Mendelsohn;Roger Sedjo

  • A Theoretical Foundation for Count Data Models

    Daniel Hellerstein;Robert Mendelsohn

  • THE VALUE OF UNDISCOVERED PHARMACEUTICALS IN TROPICAL FORESTS

    Robert Mendelsohn;Michael J. Balick

  • A ricardian analysis of the distribution of climate change impacts on agriculture across agro-ecological zones in Africa

    S. Niggol Seo;Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar;Rashid Hassan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariel Dinar
Ariel Dinar University of California, Riverside
Rashid M. Hassan
Rashid M. Hassan University of Pretoria
Jinxia Wang
Jinxia Wang Peking University
Steven Van Passel
Steven Van Passel University of Antwerp
Jikun Huang
Jikun Huang Peking University
William D. Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus Yale University
Daniel Tong
Daniel Tong George Mason University
Michael E. Schlesinger
Michael E. Schlesinger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Filip Tack
Filip Tack Ghent University

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