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Büttner, Thiess - 2021

This paper explores the effects of fiscal competition on local land use. A theoretical analysis considers the tradeoff faced by a local government deciding about the amount of land made available for commercial or residential uses, when its expansion has adverse effects on the quality of life....

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Extreme weather and inter-state migration in India

Richa, Richa; Noy, Ilan; Sen, Subir - 2024

variability in the weather and the increase in the number of extreme weather disasters associated with climate change. The … efficacy of disaster risk management and climate change adaptation policies at the sub-national level. …

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Access to guns in the heat of the moment : more restrictive gun laws mitigate the effect of temperature on violence

Colmer, Jonathan; Doleac, Jennifer L. - 2023

exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in … temperature and variation in gun control policies between and within states. Our findings suggest that more prohibitive concealed … carry laws attenuate the temperature-homicide relationship. Additional results suggest that restrictions primarily decrease …

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Effects of precipitation on food consumer price inflation

Moessner, Richhild - 2022

Phillips curves across countries for 34 OECD member and candidate economies from 1985 to 2010 augmented with climate variables … temperature. We find that precipitation has significant nonlinear effects on food CPI inflation. The coefficient of food CPI … find that temperature has no additional explanatory power for food CPI inflation over and above that of precipitation. We …

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Geography and insolation in 19th century US African-American and white statures

Carson, Scott A. (contributor) - 2008

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Geography, insolation, and institutional change in 19th century African-American and white stature in southern states

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. While much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century biological conditions were related to the physical environment and...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American stature

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century US white statures

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...

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The relationship between stature and insolation : evidence from soldiers and prisoners

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Nineteenth century white US statures varied with nutrition, disease exposure, and the physical environment. An additional explanation for stature growth is vitamin D production. Vitamin D is produced internally by the synthesis of cholesterol and sunlight in the epidermis. However, studies that...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American Body Mass Index values

Carson, Scott Alan - 2011

Little research exists on the body mass index values of late 19th and early 20th century African-Americans. Using a new BMI data set and robust statistics, this paper demonstrates that late 19th and early 20th century black BMI variation by age increased in their mid-30s but declined at older...

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