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Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...
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functions traditionally used in climate economics are ill-equipped to deal with climate catastrophes in which population size … changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with normatively desirable …
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three-fourths are due to population growth. This striking evidence is not represented in the majority of climate … the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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We construct the world’s centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five …
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among comparable households. We...
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I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …
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development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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Eric Jones has found that excessive taxes were detrimental for pre-modern China's economic growth whereas moderate taxes were conducive for Europe's economic growth. This paper provides a political-economic answer to the question why these two tax systems came about. Taxation is only feasible...
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demand deficiency, this paper examines the relationship between the two countries’ relative population size and their … specialization patterns, employment and consumption. When the countries have similar population sizes, they specialize in respective … commodities with comparative advantage. In this case a larger foreign, or a smaller home, population raises the relative price of …
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acquired by the representative organism in the short term determines the positive or negative population growth. Moving short …-run equilibria constitute the dynamics of the predator-prey relations that are characterized in numerical analysis. The population …
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