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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457366
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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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Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling : new evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020
in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165588
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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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Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women? : impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda
Calderone, Margherita - 2017
This paper looks at the spillover effects of grants under the Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was primarily aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed young people, and in practice worked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635702
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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...
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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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Intra-household inequalities in child rights and well-being : a barrier to progress?
Rodriguez Takeuchi, Laura - 2015
obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …
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