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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010. Results from preceding cross-sectional analyses are found to be robust: (a) rising consumptions for all but the top decile were associated with increased...
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Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The paper contributes to the debate on relative levels of living in the early modern world by estimating the income of and probable range of income growth in Bengal before European colonization. The exercise yields two conclusions, (a) average income in Bengal was significantly smaller than that...
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Income and schooling
Brückner, Markus; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Whereas existing literature has documented strong correlations between national incomes and measures of schooling attainment, causality has been hard to pin down. Much of empirical work had tended to interpret these correlations as implying an effect of human capital on national income, but...
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Measuring the Transformation of the European Economies: Income, Health and Welfare
Floud, Roderick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
The measurement of national income has added greatly to our understanding of economic and social change in Europe over the past hundred years. But national income analysis does not take full account of changes in welfare and particularly of the causes and effects of long-term changes in the...
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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2
De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 … pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate matter and SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of … evidence that particulate pollution increases pulmonary-related hospitalization. Specifically, a one standard deviation …
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Effects of Ownership and Financial Status on Corporate Environmental Performance
Earnhart, Dietrich; Lizal, Lubomir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper analyses the effects of ownership structure on corporate environmental performance and examines the link from financial performance to environmental performance in a transition economy. In particular, it analyses these ownership effects and this performance link using an unbalanced...
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Pollution and Growth: What Do We Know?
Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
water quality. Pollution may rise with growth, because an increased scale of economic activity means more emissions, ceteris … pollution there is no evidence at all that a turning point has yet been reached. The paper goes on to discuss the economic …
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Acid Rain
Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
current agreement on uniform reductions from 1980 levels is inefficient and costly. The evidence suggests that SO2 pollution …
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Are the Costs of Cleaning Up Eastern Europe Exaggerated? Economic Reform and the Environment
Hughes, Gordon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
Widespread concern has been expressed that the costs of reducing environmental pollution in Eastern Europe will divert …
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Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities?
Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …
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