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. Parameterizing the model, we explore the impact of a worldwide temperature increase of 3°C. We find that the impact on disease …
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exposure to malaria increases the incidence of civil violence. The analysis uses panel data at the 1o grid cell level at … monthly frequency. The econometric identification exploits exogenous monthly within-grid-cell variation in weather conditions … that are particularly suitable for malaria transmission. The analysis compares the effect across cells with different …
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evaluate one of Malawi's main malaria prevention campaigns, a nationwide insecticide-treated-net (ITN) distribution scheme, in … terms of its effect on infant mortality. We exploit that the program affects child mortality only via bed net usage. We find … that Malawi's ITN distribution campaign reduced child mortality by 1 percentage point, which corresponds to about 30% of …
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This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu. Small Island Developing States, particularly the atoll islands, are considered to be the most vulnerable to climatic change, and in particular to sea-level rise and its...
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of real-world economies and find that the multiplier effect of climate change due to general equilibrium effects is …
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Common integrated assessment models produce the counterintuitive result that higher risk aversion does not lead to stronger near-term abatement. This paper re-examines this result with a DICE model that is fully coupled with a thermohaline circulation model. It also features Epstein-Zin utility...
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In the last two decades increasing attention has been paid to the relationship between environmental degradation and economic development. According to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis this relationship may be described by an inverted-U curve. However, recent evidence rejects the...
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Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...
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Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...
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We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends … strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that labor …
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