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Self-Protection Investment Exacerbates Air Pollution Exposure Inequality in Urban China
Zheng, Siqi - 2015
Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …
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Who Counts in Evaluating the Effects of Air Pollution Policies on Households? Non-Market Valuation in the Presence of Dependencies
Evans, Mary F. - 2009
relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit estimation since it is unlikely that the conditions necessary for … recovering the underlying individual preferences from household choices are satisfied in this setting. We propose a conceptual … relationships for household members of different ages to test the implications of our conceptual model. Respondents' choices take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463284
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Who Pays a Price on Carbon?
Grainger, Corbett A. - 2009
-capita basis a carbon price is much more regressive than calculations at the household level. We discuss policy options to offset …
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Gray Matters : Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2014
This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely on comparisons across siblings which address concerns about locational sorting and all other time-invariant family characteristics that can lead to endogenous exposure to poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458003
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Keepin' 'em Down on the Farm : Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling
Jensen, Robert - 2017
In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455559
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On the Optimal Inflation Rate
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2016
In our incomplete markets economy financial frictions affect the optimal inflation target. Households choose portfolios consisting of risky (uninsurable) capital and money. Money is a bubbly store of value. The market outcome is constrained Pareto inefficient due to a pecuniary externality. Each...
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Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints : Why do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2015
The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for educational attainment and lifetime earnings. After providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457645
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The consequences of miscarriage on parental investments
Bütikofer, Aline; Coy, Deidre; Doyle, Orla; Ginja, Rita - 2024
Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian registry data, we exploit the random nature of single, early miscarriages to examine the impact of pregnancy loss on parental investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505285
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Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment
Giannola, Michele - 2022 - This version: July 2022
Intra-household inequality explains up to 50 percent of the cross-sectional variation in child human capital in the … well as study the role of household resources. I find that parents are driven by efficiency considerations rather than …
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Do social relations affect economic welfare? : a microeconomic empirical analysis
Degli Antoni, Giacomo (contributor) - 2007
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