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The share of home-cooked food in the diet of UK households declined from the 1980s. This was contemporaneous with a …
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Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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This study examines the long-run relationship between industrial pollution and income in China using provincial panel … data. Four types of pollutants are modelled: waste water, solid wastes, soot and SO2 emission. Two types of income effects … EKC models; pollutant emissions may go positively or negatively with income irrespective of income levels whereas certain …
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emissions tend to increase with income, but they also show a strong variability linked to geographical and technical factors … access to less carbon-intensive modes of transport. For housing, while the size of the dwelling increases with income and … do with income but more to do with settlement patterns, which constrain access to the various energy carriers. Finally …
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This paper re-examines the relationship between per capita income, inequality, and per capita emissions while … scale, the effect of inequality on emissions should vary depending on the level of income per capita. Specifically, for a … given level of income per capita, a richer median voter will be more likely to approve of more stringent environmental …
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We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for … income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal … evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to feature the annual value of the Gini Index on disposable income from …
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