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Environmental Risks and Poverty : Analyzing Geo-Spatial and Household Data from Vietnam
Narloch, Ulf Gerrit - 2017
This study combines high-resolution, geo-spatial data and household data from the Vietnam Living Standard Measurement … developed data on air pollution, tree cover loss, land degradation, slope, rainfall and temperature variability, and flood and …
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Child Labor and Learning
Emerson, Patrick M. - 2017
This paper uses a unique micro panel dataset of Brazilian students to investigate the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes. The potential endogeneity is addressed through the use of difference-in-difference and instrumental variable estimators. A negative effect of working on...
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Does Debt Relief Improve Child Health? Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data
Welander, Anna - 2017
This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative in the late 1990s to reduce the debt burdens of poor countries, and explicitly linked the initiative...
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Modeling the Marginal Value of Rainforest Losses : A Dynamic Value Function Approach
Strand, Jon - 2017
A rainforest can be modeled as a dynamic asset subject to various risks, including risk of fire. Any small part of the forest can be in one of two states: either untouched by forest fire, or already damaged by fire, in which case there is both a local forest loss and increased dryness over a...
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Value of Improved Information About Forest Protection Values, with Application to Rainforest Valuation
Strand, Jon - 2017
What is the utility from obtaining more precise values of natural resource objects (rainforests), through surveys or other similar information gathering? In the value of information problems studied here, a principal who wishes to preserve a resource sets a price to offer to a seller without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970944
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How Much is the Amazon Worth? The State of Knowledge Concerning the Value of Preserving Amazon Rainforests
May, Peter - 2017
This paper surveys the current state of knowledge concerning the value of the Amazon rainforest, including a survey of work to date to quantify changes in economic values when the rainforest cover changes. The focus is on local and regional impacts of forest loss or protection, including both...
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Welfare Measurement Bias in Household and On-Site Surveying of Water-Based Recreation : An Application to Lake Sevan, Armenia
Laplante, Benoit - 2016
Studies comparing household surveys with on-site interceptor surveys have typically accounted for over-sampling avid … accounted for the possibility that the household sample may contain a large presence of zero observations. If a large proportion … and compare three models which correct for these measurement issues in both the household and on-site surveys. Results …
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Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change : Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh
Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2020
. Sales were not increased by informal inter-household agreements to share water from wells found to be safe, or by visual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838791
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The Nitrogen Legacy : The Long-Term Effects of Water Pollution on Human Capital
Zaveri, Esha Dilip - 2020
The fallout of nitrogen pollution is considered one of the largest global externalities facing the world, impacting air …, Vietnam, and 33 African countries to analyze the causal links between pollution exposure experienced during the very earliest … stages of life and later-life health. The results show that pollution exposure experienced in the critical years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842154
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The Belt and Road Initiative : Economic, Poverty and Environmental Impacts
Maliszewska, Maryla - 2019
China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to improve connectivity between China and more than 70 countries through infrastructure investment and regional cooperation. The initiative has the potential to accelerate significantly the rate of economic integration and development in the region, as trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888866