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Organic food markets in developed countries have been rapidly expanding in recent years. Though expected health … benefits are a major motive for buying organic food (OF), the health effects of consuming OF are uncertain. This study uses … survey data from Germany, 2007, to explore the causal relationship between OF consumption and self-rated health status. While …
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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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Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is …
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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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The developing world has become the primary destination for used electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) exported by the developed world, making e-waste management critical. This paper aims to determine the state of e-waste management in Sub-Saharan Africa by critically reviewing the corpus on...
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these externalities is to make them transparent through “true‐” or full‐cost accounting. Estimates of the external health …
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