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Climate and Conflict
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Burke, Marshall; Hsiang, Solomon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an explosion of research on both topics in the past decade, with a particularly large body of research emerging at their intersection. In this review, we survey this literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969392
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Asset Pricing Implications of Macroeconomic Interventions An Application to Climate Policy
Mehra, Rajnish - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper illustrates that evaluating alternate abatement polices that affect the growth path of an economy on the basis of their effects on asset valuation may not be welfare enhancing. We show that the class of abatement polices considered in the integrated assessment literature are robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821892
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Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States
Deryugina, Tatyana; Hsiang, Solomon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
It is widely hypothesized that incomes in wealthy countries are insulated from environmental conditions because individuals have the resources needed to adapt to their environment. We test this idea in the wealthiest economy in human history. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098930
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Rethinking Elderly Poverty: Time for a Health Inclusive Poverty Measure?
Korenman, Sanders; Remler, Dahlia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty … a poverty measure's predictive validity and excluding assets exacerbates this bias, since assets fund MOOP. The SPM is … based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it, conceptually, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950667
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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
Li, Hongbin; Almond, Douglas; Zhang, Shuang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Following the death of Mao in 1976, abandonment of collective farming lifted millions from poverty and heralded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950798
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Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations
Murnane, Richard J.; Ganimian, Alejandro J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper describes four lessons derived from 115 rigorous impact evaluations of educational initiatives in 33 low- and middle-income countries. First, reducing the costs of going to school and providing alternatives to traditional public schools increase attendance and attainment, but do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950949
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An Exploration of the International Comparison Program's New Global Economic Landscape
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
dramatic revisions to price levels and real incomes across the world. The paper tries to understand these changes. Domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951231
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The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?
Meyer, Bruce D.; Bee, Adam; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper examines the quality of data collected in the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey, which is the source for the Consumer Price Index weights and is the main source of U.S. consumption microdata. We compare reported spending on a large number of categories of goods and services to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271446
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The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
Chetty, Raj; Katz, Lawrence F.; Hendren, Nathaniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families living in high-poverty housing projects … housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long …-term outcomes using administrative data from tax returns. We find that moving to a lower-poverty neighborhood significantly improves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276428
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Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity: A Case Study for China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China’s Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …
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