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De-fueling externalities : causal effects of fuel taxation and mediating mechanisms for delivering climate and health benefits
Basaglia, Pier; Behr, Sophie M.; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2023 - This version: July 2023
This paper is the first to investigate the effectiveness of fuel taxation to jointly deliver climate and health benefits … reductions in external damages are health benefits, highlighting the importance of accounting for co-pollution impacts of carbon … newspapers. We further show that gasoline-to-diesel substitution substantially mediates the trade-off between climate and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014295072
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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood
Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024
monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents. …
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The macroeconomics of clean energy subsidies
Casey, Gregory; Jeon, Woongchan; Traeger, Christian - 2023
We study clean energy subsidies in a quantitative climate-economy model. Clean en-ergy subsidies decrease carbon emissions if and only if they lower the marginal product of dirty energy. The constrained-efficient subsidy equals the marginal external cost of dirty energy multiplied by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444067
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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of production possibilities to illuminate the possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048370
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Fetal growth and neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood
Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014
Using a sample of sibling pairs from a nationally representative U.S. survey, we examine the effects of the fetal growth rate on a set of neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood measured by parent-reported diagnosed developmental disabilities and behavior problems. Based on models that include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412750
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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262768
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The environmental and macroeconomic effects of socially responsible investment
Dam, Lammertjan (contributor); Heijdra, Ben J. (contributor) - 2008
We analyze the effects of socially responsible investment and public abatement on environmental quality and the economy in a continuous-time dynamic growth model featuring optimizing households and firms. Environmental quality is modelled as a renewable resource. Consumers can invest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730310
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Climate change mitigation options and directed technical change : a decentralized equilibrium analysis
Grimaud, André; Lafforgue, Gilles; Magné, Bertrand - 2009
The paper considers a climate change growth model with three R&D sectors dedicated to energy, backstop and CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) efficiency. First, we characterize the set of decentralized equilibria: A particular equilibrium is associated to each vector of public tools which includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922939
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Economic challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223439
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Do we still need carbonIntensive capital when transitioning to a green economy?
Jin, Wei; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Zhang, Lin - 2020
This paper presents a two-sector green endogenous growth model to explore a mechanism that explains why carbon-intensive capital is not necessarily shut down during transition to a green economy. Without accumulating clean capital to offset carbon emissions, a tightening of climate regulation...
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