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Inequality and Crime: Separating the Effects of Permanent and Transitory Income
Dahlberg, Matz; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2005
Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …
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On the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Is there Multivariate Convergence?
Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021
This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501724
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On the Dynamics of Gasoline Market Integration in the United States: Evidence from a Pair-wise Approach
Holmes, Mark J.; Otero, Jesús; Panagiotidis, Theodore - 2012
This paper employs a pair-wise approach to examine regional integration in the US gasoline market. Using gasoline price data at the state level over a period of more than two decades, we find strong support for the view that the law of one price holds in regional markets, as more than 80% of...
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Better to grow or better to improve? Measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier
Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021
The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...
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On the stationarity of per capita carbon dioxide emissions over a century
Christidou, Maria; Panagiotidis, Theodore; Sharma, Abhijit - 2013
This paper examines the stationarity of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita for a set of 36 countries covering the period 1870-2006. We employ recently developed unit root and stationarity tests that allow for the mean reverting process to be nonlinear and take into account cross sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500249
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How the nature of inequality reduction matters for CO2 emissions
Angel, Tobias; Berthe, Alexandre; Costantini, Valeria; … - 2024
This study investigates the relationship between distinct types of inequality and CO2 emissions using panel data on 156 countries from 1995 to 2020. Using fixed effects panel and quantile regression techniques, we report estimates that indicate that pre-distribution (inequality reduction by...
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Weathering an unexpected financial shock: The role of cash grants on household finance and business survival
Gallagher, Justin; Hartley, Daniel; Rohlin, Shawn - 2019
. The grants play a role in mitigating the effects of the shock to businesses; resulting in 18% more establishments and 29 …
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Is high-speed rail green? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
Nie, Liang; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021
Existing studies have investigated the environmental dividends of substituting high-speed rail for other energy-intensive vehicles from an engineering standpoint, but they have yet to explore the economic effects of high-speed rail and the associated carbon emission reduction benefits. To fill...
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Macroeconomic spillovers of weather shocks across U.S. states
Bacchiocchi, Emanuele; Bastianin, Andrea; Moramarco, … - 2024
We estimate the short-run effects of severe weather shocks on local economic activity and assess cross …-border spillovers operating through economic linkages between U.S. states. We measure weather shocks using a detailed county … weather shocks hitting individual regions. We also show that (i) taking into account economic interconnections between states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577274
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From unpaid to paid care work: the macroeconomic implications of HIV and AIDS on women's time-tax burdens
Antonopoulos, Rania; Toay, Taun N. - 2009
This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdensall factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for genderinformed public job creation in areas that...
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