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Economic Growth and Obesity : Findings of an Obesity Kuznets Curve
Cotet Grecu, Anca; Rotthoff, Kurt W. - 2014
Simon Kuznets’ (1955) hypothesis that as a country develops, a natural cycle develops where inequality first increases, then decreases, has become known at the Kuznets curve. This pattern has also been applied to the environment, an ‘Environmental Kuznets curve’, showing that as...
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Mitigating adverse social and health impacts of COVID-19 with applied arts
Metzger, Martina; Steinhauer, Hans Walter; Pédussel … - 2024
In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015078663
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Mitigating adverse social and health impacts of COVID-19 with applied arts
Metzger, Martina; Steinhauer, Hans Walter; Pédussel … - 2024
In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015081292
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How regulation might fail to reduce energy consumption while still stimulating total factor productivity growth
Bansal, Sangeeta; Filippini, Massimo; Srinivasan, Suchita - 2023 - Last revision: January 27, 2023
This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...
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The Increasing Weight of Regulation : Countries Combat the Global Obesity Epidemic
Taylor, Allyn L.; Parento, Emily Whelan; Schmidt, Laura - 2014
addition, the scale of the obesity epidemic combined with the global trend toward more comprehensive regulation may for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146713
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Risk Regulation
Arcuri, Alessandra - 2011
Risk regulation is of crucial importance for the functioning of contemporary societies, where risk is ubiquitous … and policymakers decide what risks a society ought to bear? When is regulation needed to control such risks and when can … politics? This chapter presents the most relevant law and economics theories for the field of risk regulation. It first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042576
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International income inequality: Measuring PPP bias by estimating Engel curves for food
Almås, Ingvild - 2008
Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected real incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer is a country, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335574
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The economic value of virtue
Mariani, Fabio - 2010
Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269781
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Work and Television
Corneo, Giacomo - 2001
Evidence from a sample of countries show that people roughly spend as much time watching television as earning their living. Moreover, television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the organization of free time is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272730
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The economic value of virtue
Mariani, Fabio - 2010
Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952848