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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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This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757339
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We …
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I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal …
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Using a cohort approach, this paper examines educational attainment in Ghana and its potential determinants considering … and time in Ghana. Individuals who completed any formal education were also much less likely to participate in adult …
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Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual … components of health are equal. Evidence from Ghana, Cote d?Ivoire and Brazil suggest that the health human capital effect on …
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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