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known as the “Cash for Clunkers” legislation. Under this law, Congress authorized persons trading in older and less fuel … new vehicle. The article reviews various studies assessing the effectiveness of this legislation based on economic, social …, and environmental criteria. It then identifies five key lessons from this legislation: (1) the use of environmental …
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shift will interact with environmental law. It explores four types of change triggered by the pandemic: (1) behavioral … against which laws (including environmental laws) operate; (3) changes in values (including regarding the environment); and (4 … potentially important implications for the assumptions built in to environmental law, for the ability of environmental law to …
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cast a broad net and recognize the health policies embedded in immigration laws. Some immigration laws undermine health … policies designed to improve individual and population health. For example, immigration inadmissibility and deportability laws … that chill noncitizens from enrolling in health-promoting public benefits contribute to health inequities in immigrant …
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health-related commodities lies in their ability to change people’s consumption behaviours. Additional health benefits may … taxes and other fiscal measures on health-related commodities. The motivation for such taxes has been more often linked to … the fiscal revenues generated than to their potential public health benefits. However, especially in more recent times, an …
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-based hate speech, States have a human rights-based obligation to ensure the survival of public interest media, most urgently …
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infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical variations in the adoption of the Act …
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infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical variations in the adoption of the Act …
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on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the …
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different specifications confirm that the relationship between climate events and vector-borne diseases is intricate. The 2010 …
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This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The …, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications. …
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