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Where There's Smoking, There's Fire : the Effects of Smoking Policies on the Incidence of Fires in the United States
Markowitz, Sara - 2010
Fires and burns are among the leading causes of unintentional death in the U.S. Most of these deaths occur in residences, and cigarettes are a primary cause. In this paper, I explore the relationship between smoking, cigarette policies, and fires. As fewer people smoke, there are less...
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Schedule Selection by Agents : From Price Plans to Tax Tables
Luttmer, Erzo F. P. - 2010
structure is relevant in many applications. We develop the theory underlying optimal menus of non-linear schedules and prove …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759520
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Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters
Baylis, Patrick - 2019
throughout the western USA. We first examine how the presence of homes affects firefighting expenditures. These results are used … fire risk and decreases surprisingly steeply with development density. A simple model is used to explore effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857812
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Creative Destruction : Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
Hornbeck, Richard; Keniston, Daniel - 2021
paper analyzes new plot-level data in the aftermath of the Great Boston Fire of 1872, estimating substantial economic gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224997
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W.U.I. On Fire : Risk, Salience & Housing Demand
McCoy, Shawn - 2015
between locations that vary in their perceived level of fire risk. The model allows us to infer the evolution of risk … analysis is based on a multi-dimensional characterization of the potential linkages between fire events and risk perceptions … dynamics across properties that differ in both their spatial relationship to wild fire events (views vs. proximity) and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031976
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Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality : Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
Jayachandran, Seema - 2013
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from quot;missing childrenquot;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753594
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The Changing Risk and Burden of Wildfire in the Us
Burke, Marshall; Driscoll, Anne; Xue, Jenny; Heft-Neal, Sam - 2021
, their consequences, and how risk from fire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal … US, a number increasing by 1 million houses every 3 years. Using a statistical model that links satellite-based fire and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312504
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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019
The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863692
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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2011
We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2004. Using both an error components model as well as simpler but only approximate methods, we find that the transitory variance started to increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129122
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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...
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