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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease : An Economic Approach

Gollin, Douglas - 2014

We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...

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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration : An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries

Drabo, Alassane - 2013

The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by interesting in the migration rates and the education level in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

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Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2019

This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...

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Evolution and the Growth Process:Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

,diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence ineconomic growth across countries.... …

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Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space

Delventhal, Matt; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Guner, … - 2022

The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and death...

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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Life Expectancy and the Environment

Mariani, Fabio - 2009

. Finally, we show that our results are robust to the introduction of growth dynamics based on physical or human capital …

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Left-Handedness and Economic Development

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2022

differential fertility. We further explore the possibility that the prevalence of left-handedness influences growth, finding that … of our model, the analysis of US data suggests that left-handedness can positively contribute to growth, once the economy … shape evolutionary forces, thus improving our understanding of the growth-diversity link …

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Evolution and the Growth Process : Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded - 2012

evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growth promoting … evolutionary advantage, diminishing the growth potential of advanced economies and contributing to convergence in economic growth …

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Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2020

Output per worker is lower in poor countries than in rich countries, and relatively more so in the agricultural sector. Sorting of heterogeneous workers can contribute to explain this fact if comparative and absolute advantage are aligned in agriculture, implying that average productivity in...

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