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Mortality and early growth in England, France, and Sweden
Lagerloef, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412676
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...
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LIABILITY, REGULATION AND ENDOGENOUS RISK: INCIDENCE AND SEVERITY OF ESCAPED PRESCRIBED FIRES IN THE UNITED STATES
Yoder, Jonathan - EconWPA - 2005
Prescribed fire is a useful but risky method for reducing general wildfire risk and improving wildlife habitat, biodiversity, timber growth, and agricultural forage. In the past the fifteen years, laws is some states have been adopted to support the use of prescribed fire. This article examines...
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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003
This work is focused on identifying the relationship an economic system and its policies have with the environment. The biosphere is chosen in particular as object of analysis but this can be extended by means of an ecosystem recursive properties. The common factor involved in the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062749
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
Human brain has invented the Computer&upgraded it to a level of Combrains. With Artificial Chemical Memory, these may grow to function as independent Iintellects, Master/Sponsor representatives and self- decision workers with autonomy&supreme capability. Like any human society learn and function...
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Manipulated, Misled, Ignored, Abused: Residential Consumer Experience with Electric Deregulation in the United Kingdom
Jewell, Kevin - EconWPA - 2004
increase in the use of prepayment meters, resulting in low-income customers paying more for their electricity. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076594
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Resellers' Regulated Demand Price of 93 Octane Petrol in Namibia Relative to OPEC Crude Oil Price, 1991
Amavilah, Voxi H.S. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the efficiency implications of regulated demand price of 93 octane petrol relative to OPEC crude oil price across 183 Namibian localities in 1991. It describes briefly pricing problems associated with managing petroleum and petro-products. Assuming that demand price depends...
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China and the Geopolitics of Oil in the Asian Pacific Region
Bustelo, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
consumers, such as Japan and India, as well as with other Asian Pacific countries. However, enhanced cooperation among the big … East Asian economies (China, Japan and South Korea) is also a possibility. This document first of all presents an overview …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118931
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A Residential Energy Demand System for Spain
Labandeira, Xavier; Labeaga, José M.; Rodríguez, Miguel - EconWPA - 2005
Sharp price fluctuations and increasing environmental and distributional concerns, among other issues, have led to a renewed academic interest in energy demand. In this paper we estimate, for the first time in Spain, an energy demand system with household microdata. In doing so, we tackle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119094
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The Qualitative Performance of the French Health Care System Evolutions compared to Europe since 1970
D'INTIGNANO, Beatrice MAJNONI; ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003
To judge a health care system, it is necessary to analyse its results in terms of health and to bring them back to its economic effectiveness. Health outcomes can be evaluated in several ways but none of them is really representative. To locate the performance in terms of health for the French...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076923