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Three Essays on Disease and Economic Development
Aksan, Anna-Maria - 2010
economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447380
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Fertility in South Dublin a Century Ago: A First Look
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Grada, Cormac O - 2001
Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive … literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444183
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A Classic Model in a Low Fertility Context: The Proximate Determinants of Fertility in South Korea and the United States
Poston, Dudley L. (contributor) - 2010
John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total … fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically low fertility rates …. This study follows Knodel, Chamratrithirong, and Debavalya's 1987 analysis of fertility decline in Thailand by conducting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465079
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Demographic impacts of utility rate designs
Butler, J.; Poyer, D.A. - 2009
Historically, utility customers have been differentiated into various customer classes, based on their utility service demand characteristics. In this paper we argue that greater differentiation, if based on value and cost of service, can be justified on grounds of economic efficiency, and if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436011
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Community-Level Impacts Projection System (CLIPS). Final report
Monts, J.K.; Bareiss, E.R. - 2007
The Community-Level Impacts Projection System includes a set of techniques for providing detailed advance information required for rational planning. The computerized system generates reports which enable the user: to describe the energy development activity in terms of its employment demands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436029
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1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study, Technical Appendix: Volume 1.
United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2008
This publication provides detailed documentation of the load forecast scenarios and assumptions used in preparing BPA's 1991 Pacific Northwest Loads and Resources Study (the Study). This is one of two technical appendices to the Study; the other appendix details the utility-specific loads and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436068
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The role of amenities and other factors in influencing the location of nonmanufacturing industry in the United States
Allison, T.; Calzonetti, F.J. - 2008
Consumer and producer services, the latter in particular, are expected to become an important means of diversification and employment growth to the economy of Nevada. It has been suggested that the siting of the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, will lead to a significant...
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Staff policy regarding mitigation of school enrollment impacts
Williams, D.S. - 2007
Testimony in recent geothermal power plant siting cases in the Geysers-Calistoga KGRA has established that nine local school districts have reached or exceeded the design which induces immigration into these impacted districts will aggravate the situation. Several power plant applicants have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436266
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Public service impacts of geothermal development: cumulative impacts study of the Geysers KGRA. Final staff report
Matthews, K.M. - 2007
The number of workers currently involved in the various aspects of geothermal development in the Geysers are identified. Using two different development scenarios, projections are made for the number of power plants needed to reach the electrical generation capacity of the steam resource in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436963
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Essays on the macroeconomics of labor markets
Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010
the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the 1970s and 1990s … and shows how the cyclical and secular properties of fertility can be used to distinguish among several proposed theories … that account for the rise in labor force participation of married mothers. The model, in which households make fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438557