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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...

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Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Millimet, Daniel L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental … plays out in practice as well as different federations have 'resolved' the issue differently. With the United States alone … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …

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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries

Drabo, Alassane; Mbaye, Linguère Mously - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC,...

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Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life

Albouy, David; Graf, Walter; Kellogg, Ryan; Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We present a hedonic framework to estimate U.S. households' preferences over local climates, using detailed weather and 2000 Census data. We find that Americans favor an average daily temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit, will pay more on the margin to avoid excess heat than cold, and are not...

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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach

Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...

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Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour

Boutin, Delphine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...

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The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power

Firpo, Sergio; Ponczek, Vladimir; Sanfelice, Viviane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such a strategy is rewarded by voters who elect politicians who assist their...

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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

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Police and Crime: Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring

Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...

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