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It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
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The Lincoln Public School District, in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently installed vertical-bore geothermal heat pump systems …
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In 1993, the State of Iowa, through waivers, implemented reforms to its welfare program creating the Family Investment …
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illegitimacy solely to government welfare programs. Specifically, a program similar to AFDC is introduced into an economy with low … simultaneous trends of declining real welfare benefits and rising illegitimacy over the past two and a half decades are therefore … not inconsistent with the view that illegitimacy might be caused primarily by government welfare policies. Although this …
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prospects. The first essay finds that immigrants choose labor markets with smaller welfare-reform created native supply shocks … that the distribution of immigrants' destinations shifts markedly away from cities with high welfare participation prior to …
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A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...
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This dissertation presents and estimates a model that examines the economic causes of intergenerational welfare … recipiency. Previous literature in this area has found that daughters of welfare recipients have a higher incidence of receiving … welfare than daughters of non-recipients. My dissertation measures the possible economic causes underlying this phenomenon by …
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instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on … society. This paper fills a gap in the literature byassessing the distributional impacts and welfare effects resulting from a … welfare economics framework is developed allowing the calculation of the distributional characteristics of various food groups …
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This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles … rise in food prices has resulted in a welfare loss for all income deciles, particularly for those in the lower income … economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price …
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and welfare, we analyze the welfare from the agents economic that show the externalities negatives deriving from of the …
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