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Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the income-related health mobility index recently introduced byAllanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the...
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Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
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each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to … determine whether adaptation activities should be undertaken promptly, delayed to some future date, or avoided altogether. …
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aims at raising mitigation while also reducing the damages from climate change: conditional adaptation support. Especially … amount of adaptation funding and the best ways to raise, manage and disburse these funds, hardly any attention is paid to the … international allocative effects of these transfers. The answer to the question of ‘why’ international adaptation transfers are paid …
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Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed … adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of … adaptation is provided, with focus on budgetary effects of adaptation in the different impact sectors. Combining cost estimates …
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This paper assesses the role of the public sector in adaptation to climate change. We first offer a definition and … categorisation of climate change adaptation. We then consider the primary economic principles that can guide the assignment of … adaptation tasks to either the private or the public sector, as well as those guiding assignment within the public sector itself …
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widely unknown. Governments try to cope with these risks by investing in mitigation and adaptation measures. Mitigation aims … at a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whereas adaptation reduces the follow-up costs of climate change. In contrast … to the existing literature, we explicitly model the decision of risk-averse governments on mitigation and adaptation …
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The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing temperatures, there is a potentially more harmful one: through an increase in extreme weather incidents. We offer the first evidence on the effect of natural disasters on pregnancy...
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This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the “harmony” of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible commitments (which rules out efficient bargaining). The...
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