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Childhood preventive care, adult healthcare and economic growth: The role of healthcare financing
Woode, Maame Esi; Nourry, Carine; Ventelou, Bruno - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 41-47
We analyze the impact of healthcare financing on economic growth, focusing on the issue of the joint public …–private financing of healthcare (co-payment). We use an overlapping-generations model with endogenous growth based on health human …-finance adulthood curative care. From a growth maximizing perspective, distortionary taxes give an advantage to co …
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The spatial dynamics of growth and inequality: Evidence using U.S. county-level data
Atems, Bebonchu - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 19-22
’s inequality is associated with a 3.3% decrease in its growth, while one-point increases in inequality in a county’s neighbors … decrease its growth by 4.8%. …
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Unintended Consequences of Indian Groundwater Preservation Law on Crop Residue Burning
Agarwala, Meghna; Bhattacharjee, Shampa; Dasgupta, Aparajita - 2022
This paper examines the unintended consequences of a policy aimed at improving the groundwater level on crop residue burning in India. The Preservation of Subsoil Water Act, 2009 implemented in two Indian states bans the transplantation of paddy before mid-June to preserve groundwater....
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Technology adoption and diffusion with uncertainty in a commons
Fissel, Benjamin E.; Gilbert, Ben; LaRiviere, Jacob - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 297-301
We model adoption and diffusion in a commons under uncertainty about a technology’s value. Technological resource stock externalities make technology less valuable with depleted stocks, but transmit information about a new technology’s value, causing faster adoption of high-value technologies.
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Testing the Prebish–Singer hypothesis using second-generation panel data stationarity tests with a break
Arezki, Rabah; Hadri, Kaddour; Kurozumi, Eiji; Rao, Yao - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 3, pp. 814-816
In this paper, we test the Prebish–Singer (PS) hypothesis, which states that real commodity prices decline in the long run, using two recent powerful panel data stationarity tests accounting for cross-sectional dependence and a structural break. We find that the hypothesis cannot be rejected...
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New evidence on trade-environment linkage via air visibility
Li, Zhigang; Xu, Nan; Yuan, Jia - In: Economics Letters 128 (2015) C, pp. 72-74
We revisit the effect of trade openness on environmental quality by utilizing data on the air visibility of 134 countries during 1961–2004. We find a significantly negative impact of trade openness on air quality, not only for developing economies, but also for developed ones. This finding is...
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Heterogeneous Convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 238-241
We use US county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9% and the New York estimate is 3.3%. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.
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Economic growth and individualism: The role of informal institutions
Hansen, Casper Worm - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 378-380
dimension of culture is important for long-term economic growth. …
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The non-monotonous impact of population growth on economic prosperity
Prettner, Klaus - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 93-95
We reconcile theory and evidence on the relationship between economic prosperity and population growth in an R …&D-based growth model. We show that the negative effect of population growth outweighs the positive effect in industrialized countries …
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 238-241
We use US county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9% and the New York estimate is 3.3%. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678840