This paper examines the impact of breastfeeding practices on the large regional differences in infant mortality in Germany around 1910. Breastfeeding is strongly negatively associated with infant mortality and remains so after controlling for public health measures and for demographic, economic,...

In the United States, low-income people are not evenly distributed across the rural-urban landscape. Does this phenomenon partly reflect that people who "choose" to live in rural areas have unmeasured attributes related to poverty? To address this question, I use data from nine waves of the...

In the light of the reaffirmed importance ofagricultural convergence within the integration process, thepaper provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of theenlargement from the EU-15 to the EU-27 on agricultural realb-convergence and, with reference to the EU-27, of itsrelationship...

"The paper presents thoughts on Sustainable Data Infrastructure (SDI)development, and its user requirements bases. It brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory,...

Mit dem Ziel einer erhöhten Durchsetzung der Waldgesetze zur Kontrolle von Entwaldung führte die Umweltbehörde von Mato Grosso im Jahre 1999 ein neues Umweltlizenzsystem ein. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht die Wirksamkeit dieses Umweltlizenzsystem durch eine Kombination quantitativ...

Artículo de revista ; The article highlights how the distribution of the cash infrastructure affects cash users in Spain. The more cash infrastructures are scaled down and/or concentrated, the wider the gap becomes between those who have difficulty accessing cash and those who have easy access...

In many studies, lattice or area data are observed and spatial analysis is performed. A spatial process observed over a lattice or a set of irregular regions is usually modeled using a conditionally autoregressive (CAR) model. The neighborhoods within a CAR model are generally formed using only...