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Private Health Investments under Competing Risks: Evidence from Malaria Control in Senegal
Rossi, Pauline; Villar, Paola - 2017
malaria prevents parents to invest in child health. Building upon the seminal paper of Dowetal. (1999), we develop a simple … model of health investments under competing mortality risks, in which people allocate expenses to equalize lifetime across … all causes of death. We predict that private health investments to fight malaria as well as other diseases should increase …
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Fertile Soil for Structural Funds?
Ederveen, Sjef; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Nahuis, Richard - 2002
Structural funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the EuropeanUnion to promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process ofconvergence. This paper empirically explores the effectiveness of European Structural Fundsby means of a panel data analysis for 13...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324809
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A Fragmented China
Poncet, Sandra - 2004
This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325322
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When Clusters become Networks
Phlippen, Sandra; van der Knaap, Bert - 2007
Policy makers spend large amounts of public resources on the foundation of science parks and other forms of geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and innovation is the assumption that co-located firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325336
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Territorial Capital and Regional Growth: Increasing Returns in Cognitive Knowledge Use
Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009
Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...
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The Impact of Mixed Land Use on Residential Property Values
Koster, Hans R.A.; Rouwendal, Jan - 2010
Contemporary European urban planning policies aim to mix land uses in compact neighbourhoods. It is presumed that mixing land uses yields socio-economic benefits and therefore has a positive effect on housing values. In this paper, we investigate the impact of mixed land use on housing values...
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Regional Population-Employment Dynamics across Different Sectors of the Economy
de Graaff, Thomas; van Oort, Frank G.; Florax, Raymond … - 2011
An important subset of the literature on agglomeration externalities hypothesizes thatintrasectoral and intersectoral relations are endogenously determined in models of localand regional economic growth. Remarkably, structural adjustment models describing thespatio-temporal dynamics of...
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Preference Elicitation in Generalized Data Envelopment Analysis - In Search of a New Energy Balance in Japan
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2013
The recent dramatic change in energy supply in Japan has prompted a search for a new energy-environment-economic efficiency policy, in which a compromise has to be found between a sufficient supply of energy resources, the development of low carbon emission technology, and a continuation of...
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To join or not to join? The impact of social interactions on local participation decisions
Bijker, Rixt; van Leeuwen, Eveline S.; Koster, Paul - 2019
This paper investigates how social interactions impact the decision to participate in one’s local environment. Existing work often reports correlations between social interactions and local participation, but it is unclear what the causal direction of this relationship is. A key contribution...
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Participatory Value Evaluation: a novel method to evaluate future urban mobility investments
Mouter, Niek; Koster, Paul; Dekker, Thijs - 2019
as improving health and the environment, fostering city cycling as well as the inclusion of ethical considerations such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114799