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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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Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters
Baylis, Patrick - 2019
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 …
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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;...
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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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The Geography of Fear
Treisman, Daniel - 2011
Whether the danger invoked is nuclear war or genetically modified foods, far more people in some countries than in others say they are afraid. Using data from six surveys, I show that the levels of reported fear of different dangers correlate strongly across both individuals and countries. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129117
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The Regional Distribution of Skill Premia in Urban China
Whalley, John - 2010
We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in recent years. This has previously been little noted or discussed. We use three urban household surveys for 1995, 2002, and 2007 and estimate skill premia at provincial and city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135404
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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
Wang, Jing - 2012
This paper focuses on the contribution to recent narrowing of the gap between Northern and Southern economies in GDP/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three currently largest rapidly growing Southern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113158