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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...
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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
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall harvesting. Access to cisterns during early pregnancy...
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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 … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …
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Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy
Heshmati, Almas - 2014
The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul - 2020
the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help …
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Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five : A Decompositional Analysis
Nie, Peng - 2016
among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non … improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are …
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The Relationship between Status and Happiness : Evidence from the Caste System in Rural India
Van Landeghem, Bert - 2017
observational data identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste …
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Effects of Intergenerational Transfers on Elderly Coresidence with Adult Children : Evidence from Rural India
Pal, Sarmistha - 2021
The present paper argues that intergenerational transfers between elderly parents and adult children are important determinants of any coresidency arrangement though generally overlooked in the existing literature. In this respect the paper distinguishes between exchange of both financial and...
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Household Cooking Fuel Choice in India, 2004-2012 : A Panel Multinomial Analysis
Kuo, Ying-Min - 2019
We use two waves of nationally representative India Human Development Survey to examine factors driving the cooking … fuel choice in urban and rural India, separately. We utilize a random effects multinomial logit model that controls for …
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