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A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on European agriculture

Van Passel, Steven; Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, … - 2014

This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...

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Testing, not modelling, the impact of cohesion support : a theoretical framework and some preliminary results for the Spanish regions

Fuente, Ángel de la - 2010

This paper develops a simple model that can be used to estimate the effectiveness of Cohesion expenditure relative to similar but unsubsidized projects, thereby making it possible to explicitly test an important assumption that is often implicit in estimates of the impact of Cohesion policies....

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Thinking of incentivizing care? : the effect of demand subsidies on informal caregiving and intergenerational transfers

Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - 2016

We still know little about what motivates the informal care arrangements provided in old age. The introduction of demand-side subsidies such as unconditional caregiving allowances (cash benefits designed either to incentivize the provision of informal care, or compensate for the loss of...

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Sick leave cuts and (unhealthy) returns to work

Marie, Olivier; Vall Castello, Judit - 2022

change that only affected public sector workers in Spain and compare changes in the number and length of spells they take …

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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries … first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional governments in Italy than in Spain. Upon documenting national and regional … autonomy, and fostering experimentation and local solutions explains the gap between Italy and Spain in the first wave of the …

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

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