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What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

Kremer, Michael - 2007

The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting diarrheal disease, which kills 2 million children annually. There is...

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Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2017

Historically, improvements in municipal water quality reduced mortality substantially in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection has not produced equivalent benefits in developing countries today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing a large-scale municipal water disinfection program...

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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a … large-scale public investment in roads during the 2000s. Using spatially disaggregated data on road upgrades and domestic …

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How Should We Measure Infrastructure? The Case of Highways and Streets

Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

streets. We compare BEA's capital measures with more readily understood physical measures of road and lane miles, road quality …

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Infrastructure Inequality : Who Pays the Cost of Road Roughness?

Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kreindler, Gabriel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our … measure correlates strongly and positively with other measures of road roughness where they are available, negatively with … driver speed, and we find road repair events decrease roughness and increase speeds. We measure drivers' willingness …

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Urban roadway in America : the amount, extent, and value

Guerra, Erick; Duranton, Gilles; Ma, Xinyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We predict the amount, share, and value of land dedicated to roadways within and across 316 US Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Despite the amount and value of land dedicated to roadway, our study provides the first such estimate across a broad range of metropolitan areas. Our basic...

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Will the Developing World's Growing Middle Class Support Low Carbon Policies?

Kahn, Matthew E.; Lall, Somik V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

As billions of people in the developing world seek to increase their living standards, their aspirations pose a challenge to global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The emerging middle class are buying and operating energy intensive durables ranging from vehicles to air conditioners to...

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Minimax-Regret Climate Policy with Deep Uncertainty in Climate Modeling and Intergenerational Discounting

DeCanio, Stephen J.; Manski, Charles F.; Sanstad, Alan H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Integrated assessment models have become the primary tools for comparing climate policies that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Policy comparisons have often been performed by considering a planner who seeks to make optimal trade-offs between the costs of carbon abatement and the...

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Climate Change Uncertainty Spillover in the Macroeconomy

Barnett, Michael; Brock, William A.; Hansen, Lars Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The design and conduct of climate change policy necessarily confronts uncertainty along multiple fronts. We explore the consequences of ambiguity over various sources and configurations of models that impact how economic opportunities could be damaged in the future. We appeal to decision theory...

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Unemployment, Labor Mobility, and Climate Policy

Castellanos, Kenneth A. - 2019

We develop a computable general equilibrium model of the United States economy to study the unemployment effects of climate policy and the importance of cross-sectoral labor mobility. We consider two alternate extreme assumptions about labor mobility: either perfect mobility, as is assumed in...

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