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Children s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth
Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus - 2017
We analyze the effects of children's health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i)...
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Vector-Borne Diseases and Economic Activity : Evidence from Historical Farmer Productivity in the US
Malpede, Maurizio - 2021
This study provides an estimation of the causal relationship between the reduction in malaria transmission and farmer agricultural productivity. Exploiting exogenous ge- ographic variations in the stability of malaria and using historical disaggregated county data for the US together with a...
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Economic growth and emissions : testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for ECOWAS countries
Omotor, Douglason Godwin - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 17 (2017) 2, pp. 25-56
The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...
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Extremely harsh winters threaten the livelihood of Mongolia's herders
Lehmann-Uschner, Anna Katharina; Kraehnert, Kati - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 40, pp. 369-375
Households in developing countries are exposed to increasingly extreme weather events that could endanger their prosperity. This study examines the impact of the unusually cold, snowy winter of 2009/2010 on the livestock of Mongolian households. Livestock represents on average more than 90...
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When shocks become persistent : household-level asset growth in the aftermath of an extreme weather event
Lehmann-Uschner, Katharina; Kraehnert, Kati - 2018
With the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change, assessing the potential long-term effects of these events for affected households is critically important. This study analyzes to what extent a one-off extreme weather event can have persistent effects...
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Hurricanes, economic growth and transmission channels : empirical evidence for developed and underdeveloped countries
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2016
effects of hurricanes are especially pronounced in underdeveloped countries which have comparatively little possibilities to … increase in net fertility and a decrease in educational efforts in the aftermath of occurring hurricanes. …
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Geospatial analyses of natural disasters : economic impacts, societal responses, and political bias
Kunze, Sven - 2021
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Comprehensive development plan for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and South-Southeast Mexico ; volume 1
Vereinte Nationen / Economic Commission for Latin … - 2021
the quality of life of the people of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and south-southeast Mexico, thus making migration a …Foreword .-- I. Priority areas for promoting development in northern Central America andsouth-southeast Mexico .-- II … .-- V. Country prioritization process. A. El Salvador. B. Guatemala. C. Honduras. D. México. …
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Comprehensive development plan for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and South-Southeast Mexico ; volume 2
2021
the quality of life of the people of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and south-southeast Mexico, thus making migration a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270043
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The economic growth impact of natural disasters in developing countries : evidence from hurricane strikes in the Central American and Caribbean regions
Strobl, Eric - In: Journal of development economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 130-141
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