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Water Scarcity and Social Conflict
Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Poser, Tilman - 2021
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; … - 2021
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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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
Deschenes, Olivier - 2022
This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...
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Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe
Ferreira, Susana; Akay, Alpaslan; Brereton, Finbarr; … - 2012
Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges...
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Robust Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Models Using ?-Contamination: An Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change
Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Chaturvedi, Anoop; … - 2022
-time models. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible misspecification of the prior distribution … a general “toolbox†for a wide range of specifications which includes the dynamic space- time panel model with random … effects, with cross-correlated effects à la Chamberlain, for the Hausman-Taylor world and for dynamic panel data models with …
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Smoking persistence across countries: an analysis using semi-parametric dynamic panel data models with selectivity
Christelis, Dimitris; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - 2009
We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … two by using semi-parametric dynamic panel data methods applied to both the decision to smoke or not and to the decision …
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Entrepreneurial innovation and sustained long-run growth without weak or strong scale effects
Grossmann, Volker - 2008
R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth (strong scale effect) or the level of per capita income (weak scale effect), with far-reaching policy implications. However, for modern times there is little empirical support for...
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The long-run effects of mortality decline in developing countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio - 2011
Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields utility through its status. The decline in mortality...
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Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction
Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 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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The gender education gap in China: the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William Stanley - 2009
We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her household has poor access to water. For testing we use data...
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