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Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
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This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...
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This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...
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Children who are too large for harness restraints but too small to obtain good restraint from a vehicle seatbelt alone … children to sit more comfortably without slouching. NHTSA recommends that children who do not use harness restraints use … children fit on rear seat cushions. Data from NASS-GES were analyzed to determine the age distribution of rear-seat occupants …
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Photograph of Houston Street looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas. In the center of the street is a boy riding a bicycle between trolley tracks towards trolleys and horse-drawn buggies. On either side of the street are tall buildings with signs such as, "Lyric Theatre", "A.J. Anderson Co Gun Store"...
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Men and women sit at desks and tables in an office interior. Most work at typewriters. A woman at the left operates a duplicating machine, possibly a mimeograph machine. A woman in the background talks on the telephone. A boy in the right background wears a uniform including a cap that reads:...
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mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts and at different points in their life cycle. There is … wide cross-country variation in employment and earnings gaps at age 30. At age 50, however, employment gaps between mothers … and non-mothers have closed in most countries. We also observe convergence in employment gaps between mothers and fathers …
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Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a …
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of a project designed to promote high penetration rates of CFLs in two cities in Mexico. Our analysis indicates that the … project will bring substantial net economic benefits to Mexico, the utility, and the average customer. In the absence of any … thus crucial to the successful implementation of the project. Expanding the Ilumex project to a Mexico-wide program would …
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