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Something in the Pipe : Flint Water Crisis and Health at Birth
Wang, Rui - 2019
exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital …
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Climate Adaptation Policies and Infant Health : Evidence from a Water Policy in Brazil
Da Mata, Daniel; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor Azevedo; … - 2022
, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications …
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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
McDermott, Grant R. - 2013
Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
Rocha, Rudi - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …
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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya - 2014
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...
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Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2017
age (degradation) of water pipes and lack of complementary sanitation infrastructure play important roles in attenuating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960273
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The Gender Education Gap in China : The Power of Water
Maimaiti, Yasheng - 2009
household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
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Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction
Ornaghi, Carmine - 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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Water Scarcity and Social Conflict
Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Poser, Tilman - 2022
Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087388
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
search data to document how the great economic crisis has affected people's well-being and health studying the US, Germany …
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