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Does Improved Sanitation Reduce Diarrhea in Children in Rural India?

Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012

Almost nine million children under five years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of under- five mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths is caused by diarrhea. In this paper, we use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify...

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Returns to Publicly Owned Transport Infrastructure Investment. A Cost Function/Cost Share Approach for Norway, 1971-1991

Bye, Torstein; Katz, Alexandra - 1995

An issue of major concern to politicians and policy-makers around the world today is whether transport infrastructure … sector output. Since infrastructure comprises the vast majority of public capital in these countries, this led many … economists to conclude that underinvestment in infrastructure was largely responsible for the low growth rates in output and …

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How the new international goal for child mortality is unfair to sub-Saharan Africa (again)

Lange, Simon; Klasen, Stephan - 2016

The post-2015 development includes level-end goals for both under-five and neonatal mortality to be obtained by 2030: no more than 25 and 12 deaths per 1,000 births, respectively. Recent accelerations in the rate of reduction in under-five mortality have been cited as a cause for optimism. In...

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Accuracy and poverty impacts of proxy means-tested transfers: An empirical assessment for Bolivia

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2015

In the absence of reliable and exhaustive income data, Proxy Means Tests (PMTs) are frequently employed as a cost-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether proxies accurately identify the income poor. Based...

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How narrowly should anti-poverty programs be targeted? Simulation evidence from Bolivia and Indonesia

Klasen, Stephan; Lange, Simon - 2016

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations of targeted transfer schemes and simulation exercises often point to further gains that can be had from targeted transfers vis-à-vis universal transfers or from more narrow...

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The persistent effects of place-based policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2015

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary placebased subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...

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Some Norwegian Politicians' Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Nyborg, Karine - 1996

Members of the Norwegian Parliament were interviewed about the decision process concerning national road investments. Most of them found cost-benefit analysis useful, but apparently not as a device for ranking projects. Rather, the cost-benefit ratio was used to pick project proposals requiring...

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Automobile Usage and Urban Rail Transit Expansion

Xie, Lunyu - 2012

Using individual travel diary data collected before and after the rail transit coverage expansion in urban Beijing, this paper estimates the impact of rail accessibility improvement on the usage of rail transit, automobiles, buses, walking, and bicycling, measured as percent distance traveled by...

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Fiscal Incentives and Environmental Infrastructure in China

Liu, Antung Anthony; Zhang, Junjie - 2012

fiscal incentives can play an important role in the provision of pollution-reducing infrastructure. …

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Poverty and distributional effects of a carbon tax in Mexico

Renner, Sebastian - 2017

Mexico recently declared ambitious goals in reducing domestic CO2 emissions and introduced a carbon tax in 2014. Although negative effects on household welfare and related poverty measures are widely discussed as possible consequences, empirical evidence is missing. We try to fill this gap by...

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