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It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The difference between … health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough horizon to …
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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 examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water … quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations …
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This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water … quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations …
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What are the child health and human capital consequences of India's large coal power expansion? Using variation in …
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Developing countries have increased sanitation investment to reduce diarrheal diseases. However, the direct health … health effect is two-thirds smaller in areas with lower capacities for treatment of fecal sludge where water pollution …
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Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...
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An increasing services orientation is likely to be a key feature of the economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China, and India (collectively referred to as "ACI") over the medium-term. This paper aims to present a compendium of relevant data on...
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Environmental information disclosure strategies, which involve corporate attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution and emissions, can become a basis for a new wave of environmental protection policy that follows and has the potential to complement traditional command and...
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