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Global climate change and the resurgence of tropical disease : an economic approach

Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - 2010

We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...

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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn't work : Malawi's ITN distribution program

Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...

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Malaria risk and civil violence

Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2017

Using high-resolution data from Africa over the period 1998-2012, this paper investigates the hypothesis that a higher 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...

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Economic analysis, sustainability and environmental commons

Musu, Ignazio - 2013

issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …

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Inequality and the value of public natural capital

Meya, Jasper; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Drupp, Moritz A.; … - 2020

We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory shows that both intra- and intertemporal inequality affect the social value of public natural capital. The direction and size of the effects are driven by the degree of...

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Prevention and mitigation of epidemics : biodiversity conservation and confinement policies

Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle; Fabbri, Giorgio; Schubert, … - 2020

This paper presents a ﬁrst model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a … preserve a greater quantity of biodiversity, thus decreasing the probability of a pandemic occurring, and second (mitigation … biodiversity conservation is shown to be more relevant for more "forward looking" societies, with a small discount rate and a high …

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Coaseian biodiversity conservation : who benefits?

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2017

We consider a world economy, in which the global public good "biodiversity" is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in "rich" developed countries (North), but very low in "poor" developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South - as stipulated in the Convention on …

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