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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,...
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This paper examines the impact of parental economic status and family size on the actual and expected fertility of adult children using longitudinal data from two generations of families participating in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. There was a modest positive relationship between first...
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demography) for pure time series analysis withmultilevel regression models. The result is a method for causal modeling in …
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The oft-observed inverse relationship between economic activity in the formal or informal sector and levels of fertility is attributed to the opportunity costs of reproduction. The economic and social policies that initiate and maintain the substantial flow of federal transfer payments to the...
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the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible … gas emissions, biodiversity loss and natural resource degradation, freshwater extraction, air pollution, waste and … decoupling this thesis advances the traditional debates and discourses about “growth”.This thesis shows that in theory and …
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This case study focuses on the potential for a carbon tax ($25 and $100 per metric ton of carbon) to reduce energy use and associated carbon dioxide (CO[sub 2]) emissions in three subsectors of the stone, clay, and glass industry: hydraulic cement, glass and glass products, and other products. A...
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terms of ABC's of the 1990 CAA Amendments: abatement strategy, banking, and cost competitiveness. The implications of the …
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quantify the environmental externalities associated with new electricity resources. A more detailed companion document has been … provided to Bonneville for internal use. This report defines what is meant by externalities, particularly in the context of … stages in the fuel cycle in estimating the costs of externalities. The fuel-cycle concept is defined and its importance is …
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. Then a case study is presented focusing on the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments including SO{sub 2} emissions abatement and …
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, environmental regulation, and abatement capital expenditure constraints (e.g. capital rationing) on the productivity of energy and … pollution intensive sectors. Energy is treated like any other production input when examining evidence of inefficiency. We find …
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