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Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World indices in order to test if economic freedom affects emissions. I do so in … economic freedom is associated with environmental damage and whether deregulation is harmful to the environment or incentivises … their emissions. On the other hand, more economic freedom is likely to enable innovation and the adoption of green …
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“Political philosophies that put a lot of weight on freedom and property rights have a hard time grappling with the …
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The latest IPCC report forcefully states that immediate, decisive, and large-scale actions are needed to avert climate catastrophe. This essay presumes that democratic governments are best and most desirably positioned to take these actions. Yet in the countries most pivotal to global climate...
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the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between temperature and human conception rates and project the impacts of climate change by the mid-twenty-first century. Using complete administrative data on 6.8 million pregnancies between 1980 and 2015 in Hungary, we show that exposure to hot...
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-Saharan Africa. These effects are transmitted through interactions between the education gender gap within families, fertility, and … declines in fertility and creating population momentum. The bigger population, in turn, degrades local resources and the …
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Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first of its kind, reports preliminary evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. Our study has a...
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