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Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: evidence from three centuries

Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...

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How corruption hits people when they are down

Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2006

"Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to...

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Demography of global aging

Bloom, David E.; Mitgang, Elizabeth; Osher, Benjamin - 2016

Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the rest of the population. This chapter begins by introducing the facts, figures, and forecasts...

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The shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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Disease and development revisited

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Fink, Guenther - 2013

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic growth. We argue that such an effect is likely,...

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Deregulation in a time of pandemic : does pollution increase coronavirus cases or deaths?

Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature …

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Transmissible diseases, vaccination and inequality

Camacho, Carmen; Vasilakis, Chrysovalantis - 2023

economy with two groups of workers, who are differently exposed to a transmissible disease. We show that the economy can lead … to various scenarios in the long run, which range from a disease-free economy to a scenario in which only the most … exposed group suffers from the virus. Our numerical exercises show that the question of how a transmissible disease affects …

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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013

This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...

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Climate vulnerability, communities' resilience and child labour

Boutin, Delphine - 2014

This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to...

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Understanding climate damages: consumption versus investment

Casey, Gregory; Fried, Stephie; Gibson, Matthew - 2021

Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...

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