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Survey. Climate is described in terms of 'degree-months' calculated using an optimally-selected base temperature of 65°F (18 …We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values … to analyse a particular climate change scenario associated with the IPCC A2 emissions scenario points to major losses for …
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pay for changes in climate is revealed using European data on reported life satisfaction. Individuals located in areas … according to the preferred climates households appear strongly to favour the Mediterranean climate over the climate of Northern …
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This paper analyses regional data on inequality and poverty in Russia during 1994-2000 using published series from the regionally representative Household Budget Survey. The paper finds that the share of inequality in Russia coming from the between-regions component is large (close to a third of...
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This paper argues that the regional income gap of China is endogenously determined by its long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: (i) the comparative advantage-defying (CAD) strategy, which attempts to encourage...
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In Peru, a country with an astonishing variety of different ecological areas, with 84 different climate zones and …
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random year-to-year fluctuations in ambi-ent temperature within counties. We find that the provision of primary care through … primary care may be a useful means of mitigating harm from a warming climate. …
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Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making …. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated … by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics), who found strong effects of temperature on judges' decisions in …
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through all their features, and one of them is the climate. When we talk about tourism in rural areas as an alternative form … of tourism, we have to look at the climate characteristics from a different perspective, because alternative forms of … is not good to have extreme temperatures and climate both in the positive and the negative terms in the area in which …
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agricultural technology and infrastructure, as well as to climate and edaphic endowments. We incorporate explicit climate …-technology interactions in the model, in order to identify climate effects on the diffusion of HYVs, irrigation and multiple- cropping, and on … Net Revenue to agriculture. We find that climate affects technology development and diffusion, and that technology …
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national and international climate politics. As a consequence of these shortcomings, the measures taken so far, although quite …
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