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Still waters run deep : groundwater contamination and education outcomes in India

Aggarwal, Khushboo; Barua, Rashmi; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024

We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade … exposure to contaminants. Using self-collected survey data from public schools in Assam, one of the most groundwater …

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Income and population growth

Brückner, Markus; Schwandt, Hannes - 2013

Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by technological change. For a panel of over 139 countries spanning the period 1960-2007 we interact...

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Land reforms, status and population growth

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014

In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low...

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Divergence in labour force growth : should wages and prices grow faster in Germany?

Beissinger, Thomas; Hellier, Joël; Marczak, Martyna - 2020

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...

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Fertility, mortality and environmental policy

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2016

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is produced from labor and capital by two sectors, dirty and clean. An emission tax curbs dirty production, which decreases pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to...

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Population growth and the tragedy of the commons : can trade prevent natural resource and welfare collapse?

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024

Many developing countries depend crucially on open-access renewable natural resources (NR). Trade is generally viewed as hurting the long-term health of NR in commodity-exporting countries. I examine whether trade might be beneficial in the case of population growth. Dynamic general equilibrium...

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Water tariffs and consumers' inaction

Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering programme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish substantial financial gains, with less than a third of...

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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; … - 2015

arsenic contamination of groundwater to construct several measures for arsenic contamination that include the actual arsenic …

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Demographic and economic pressure on emigration out of Africa

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2001

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions (directly augmenting the supply of potential movers as well as indirectly making already-measured...

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Immigration policies and their impact : the case of New Zealand and Australia

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2000

The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the contribution of external migration to population growth. Next,...

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