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Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on …
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We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great … Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the … probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood, depending on the exact specification and measure of energy poverty. We find …
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We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty … estimation methods and potential omitted variable bias. We also explore the channels through which energy poverty influences …
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Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on … urban areas and Central and Western China. These results are robust not only to alternative EP and health care expenditure …
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This paper examines how the price of home heating affects mortality in the US. Exposure to cold is one reason that mortality peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by reducing heating use. It also raises energy bills, which could affect health by decreasing other...
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effects, particularly among urban households. Per capita consumption fell by 12.6%, raising poverty by 5.5 percentage points …, issues of measurement error, and different samples. The negative effects of the storm partly explain the increase in poverty …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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, poverty traps, and demography-driven cycles. The model is calibrated for global data to explore the demographic conditions … equilibria ; poverty traps ; calibrations …
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