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Population Density and Urban Air Quality
Borck, Rainald - 2019
We use panel data from Germany to analyze the effect of population density on urban air pollution (nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and ozone). To address unobserved heterogeneity and omitted variables, we present long difference/fixed effects estimates and instrumental variables estimates,...
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Land Scarcity and Urban Density within Cities
Krause, Melanie; Seidel, André - 2021
This paper studies how limitations on land suitable for development affect within-city variation in urban density and its three components: crowding, residential coverage, and building height. We use the high variation in geographical obstacles − such as steep land slopes and the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243249
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The Impact of the Spatial Population Distribution on Economic Growth : Evidence from the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022
We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Stepan; Roesel, Felix - 2021
million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left …-war Czechoslovakia and find a long-lasting footprint: Communist party support, party cell frequencies, far-left values, and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237228
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281040
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On the policy implications of changing longevity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288249
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Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Mortality in U.S. Cities During the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
small and statistically insignificant. Â The likely reason that the NPIs were not more successful in curtailing mortality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834997
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Diff-in-Diff in Death : Estimating and Explaining Artist-Specific Death Effects
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
We investigate how an artist's death impacts on the price of her artwork by estimating individual death effects of a sample of famous visual artists who died between 1985 and 2010. Using data from art auctions that took place in a narrow window around the artists' death, we apply various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838246
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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Epidemic - Lessons from the 'Spanish Flu' for the Coronavirus's Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839262
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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap
Gutmann, Jerg - 2020
evidence that an increase in child mortality and Cholera deaths as well as a decrease in public spending on health care are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843428