Showing 32,261 - 32,270 of 32,281
Previous estimates of childhood lead poisoning prevention benefits have quantified the present value of some health benefits, but not the costs of lead paint hazard control or the benefits associated with housing and energy markets. Because older housing with lead paint constitutes the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370857
This study shows a very strong association between preschool blood lead and subsequent crime rate trends over several decades in the USA, Britain, Canada, France, Australia, Finland, Italy, West Germany, and New Zealand. The relationship is characterized by best-fit lags (highest R2 and t-value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370858
This note presents the situation of violent crimes in Indian megacities (35 megacities with more than ten lakh population in 2001)for 2009 based on the information published in “Crime in India” by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370859
This paper employs a total of thirty four openness factors and indigenous factors to construct two indicators for 62 world economies for the period 1998-2002. While most globalization studies concentrated on openness factors, regression estimates and simulation studies show that sound...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370860
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370943
This book analyzes the role of institutions in public finance, focusing on the issues of revenue forecasting and the spatial administrative structure of municipalities. Chapter 2 analyzes the international differences in forecasting practices and shows that forecasting performance depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370944
Recent literature on international trade has established that the most productive firms become multinationals. But our data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of foreign affiliates across the countries in Eastern Europe of the same European multinational parent firms suggesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370945
We apply well-known results of the econometric learning literature to a standard RBC model with unemployment. The unique REE is always expectationally stable with decreasing gain learning, and this result is robust to over-parametrisation of the econometric model relative to the minimum state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207842
This study explores the determinants of health status in Turkey. Moreover, this study explores the willingness to pay for reducing the air and noise pollution. The estimates are based on data from the annual Income and Living Conditions Survey (ILCS) in Turkey which took place in period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207843
In Europe, the languages are like water: mobiles and actives, shapeless and elastics, indispensables but without power. Even if they are subject of discussions between different forces, they are not governing the relations between States. So, one can ask himself the following question: our world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207844