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for health compared to the least educated, and we find that it is differences in taste preferences, not differences in … that the most highly educated consumers are better at understanding and appreciating the health implications of their diet … characteristics that allows nutrients to influence utility both through their perceived effects on health and through their effects on …
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Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems...
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delivery and public health. By experimentally identifying the impact of incentives for local maintenance for both providers and …
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This paper provides novel evidence on the trade-off between public service delivery and free riding in low- and middle-income countries. We implement a field experiment in the slums of two major Indian cities, where inadequate access to sanitation restricts residents to either free ride, by...
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environment and on health increases the probability of choosing organic milk significantly. The effect of trust in health is more … 51 per cent believes that organic production has a positive effect on the environment and 41 per cent believes in a … positive effect on their own health. The level of trust in organic products generally increases with level of education …
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housing on health and on income? How do we choose between policies in completely different areas, such as an education policy … and a health policy? Treasury's Living Standards Framework provides one possible starting point, but it provides little …
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equilibrium of a small open economy where the environment is an input to production. Differences in the ability of individuals to … leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a … manner consistent with epidemiologic studies, in contrast to much of the literature which assumes equal health effects for …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
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This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighbourhood from the nation-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet Union. It argues that two decades of...
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