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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and …

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Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are...

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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...

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Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty

Bacarreza, Canavire; Javier, Gustavo; Hanauer, Merlin M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Protected areas represent a powerful policy tool for the preservation of ecosystems and their services. The rapid proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on surrounding populations. Recent studies from other...

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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

development, and social cohesion. To this end, we first developed UNDP-type performance indicators on these six main dimensions of …

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An Empirical Study of the Relationships between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness

Choi, Eunho; Heshmati, Almas; Cho, Yongsung - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and … development stages from industrialized to newly industrialized and emerging market economies. The environmental consequences …

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Life Expectancy and the Environment

Mariani, Fabio; Pérez-Barahona, Agustín; Raffin, Natacha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may … invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life … expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive correlation between longevity and environmental quality, both in the long …

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Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

level of social norms (including fertility preferences) that is transmitted from the migrant to the household. Second … sub-sample of Asian countries. In addition to finding evidence on the transfer of social norms from migrants to the home …

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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Oh, Donghyun; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately by excluding a spurious technical regress based on the macroeconomic perspective. In order to...

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Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using a bootstrap panel analysis that allows for cross-country dependence, without requiring the use of pre-tests for a unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the 1991-2010 period (according to availability of...

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