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skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …The risk of investment in schooling has largely been ignored. We assess thevariance in the rate of return by surveying …
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assistance to South (thus enhancing South's adaptation capacity) can facilitate pollution mitigation in both regions, especially …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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This study investigates the short- and long-run impact on population dynamics of the major flood in the Netherlands in 1953. A dynamic difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the flood had an immediate negative impact on population growth, but limited long term effects. In contrast, the...
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-free and are relevant to many fields encountering catastrophic risk analysis, such as, perhaps most noticeably, insurance and … risk management. …
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in the consumption-income ratio that occur during disaster periods or whether, on the other hand, consumers become more … forward-looking and therefore give more weight to these expectations during disaster times. Our theoretical framework implies … higher during disaster episodes. We check this both for past disasters and the current Covid-19 pandemic through the …
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