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Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced by several countries, could affect agricultural productivity. As a consequence, rural incomes will change, and with them the incentives for people to remain in rural areas. Using data from 116 countries between 1960 and 2000, we analyze...
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This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries. In this study we treat …. We contribute to the existing literature by examining the effect of urbanization, taking into account the presence of …, middle, and low-income countries, additional demographic variables, namely, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact …
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This study assesses the empirical relevance of the Harris-Todaro model at high levels of urbanization a feature that …
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This paper explores the effects of weather-induced rural-urban migration on urban labor and housing markets in Brazil. In order to identify causal effects, it uses weather shocks to the rural municipalities of origin of migrants. We show that larger migration shocks led to an increase in...
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This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes …, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been strongly determined by the ways in which different countries were … expenditure has tended to obscure this important aspect of welfare regimes in Africa. …
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