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Parental response to early human capital shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl accident

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response...

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The Effect of Acute and Intensive Exposure to Particulate Matter on Birth Outcomes in Montevideo

Balsa, Ana Inés; Bloomfield, Juanita; Caffera, Marcela - 2014

This study explores the impact of air pollution on adverse birth outcomes. The study focuses on the effect of breathable particulate matter with diameter of 10 micrometers or less (PM10) on the likelihood of premature birth and low birth weight (LBW). The study exploits the fact that in 2011 the...

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Internet use and subjective well-being in China

Nie, Peng; Nimrod, Galit; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015

Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, we analyze the association between Internet use and various measures of subjective well-being (SWB) in a sample of 16- to 60- year-old Chinese. Our analysis shows that although intensive Internet use is significantly associated with lower...

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Empirical Analysis of National Income and So2 Emissions in Selected European Countries

Markandya, Anil; Pedroso, Suzette; Golub, Alexander - 2004

Data on GDP per capita and sulfur emissions for twelve European countries were analyzed to determine the relationship between emissions and income in these countries. As a whole, the relationship between sulfur emissions and per capita income is a fourth order polynomial and not a quadratic one...

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Does manure management regulation work against agglomeration economies? Evidence from French hog production

Gaigné, Carl; Le Gallo, Julie; Larue, Solène; … - 2010

The well-known rise in the geographical concentration of hog production suggests the presence of agglomeration economies related to spatial spillovers and inter-dependencies among industries. In this paper, we examine whether manure management regulation restricting manure application per acre...

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Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway

Ciccone, Alice - 2015

In 2007, the Norwegian government reformed the vehicle registration tax in order to reduce the carbon intensity of the new car fleet by incentivizing the purchase of more fuel efficient cars. This paper identifies the impact of the new tax structure on three main dimensions: (i) the average CO2...

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The lighting transition in Africa: From kerosene to LED and the emerging dry-cell battery problem

Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015

suggesting that rapid action is needed to put in place an effective waste management system. …

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Price elasticity of household water demand in the Czech Republic

Hortová, Jana; Krištoufek, Ladislav - 2014

In the Czech Republic, water prices have been steadily increasing while water consumption has been decreasing during the last decades. A great deal of literature is devoted to the price elasticity of water demand but to the best of our knowledge, no similar study has been devoted entirely to the...

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Publication bias in measuring climate sensitivity

Havránková, Zuzana; Reckova, Dominika - 2015

We present a meta-regression analysis of the relation between the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and changes in global temperature. The relation is captured by "climate sensitivity", which measures the response to a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations compared to...

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Financial Flows in the Recycling of Packaging Waste: The Case of France

Simões, Pedro; Cruz, Nuno; Marques, Rui Cunha - 2012

The recycling of packaging waste is an objective of the Community with very ambitious recycling rate targets laid down … the targets should be raised, lowered or preserved. While each member state has currently its own packaging waste … distributed among stakeholders. It is not clear that the packaging and packaging waste Directive is being implemented correctly (i …

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