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Gimme shelter : social distancing and income support in times of pandemic
Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Bernard, Tanguy - 2021
avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …
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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - 2017
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612941
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Water scarcity and social conflict
Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Poser, Tilman - 2021
Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612654
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Water scarcity and birth outcomes in the Brazilian semiarid
Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly...
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Electricity prices, river temperatures and cooling water scarcity
McDermott, Grant R.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2012
Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
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Payment for ecosystem services from forests
Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
the design of local and international policy instruments to prevent further deforestation and encourage forest growth …
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Geographical roots of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...
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How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015
enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283156
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Recovery performance of primary agriculture credit societies in India : an assessment
Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - 2014
Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their...
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Effects of changes in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt : regression discontinuity evidence from repatriated ethnic Germans
Puhani, Patrick A.; Tabbert, Falko - 2015
To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on...
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